The Great Bridge (88 page)
Brooklyn City Hall
Brooklyn Club
Brooklyn
Eagle (Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat;
news paper)
award of cable wire contracts and
on Beecher
on Bridge Party
on Brooklyn
bridge train plans and
on cable positioning
on contemplated suicides from
Bridge
on inauguration
Brooklyn
Eagle
on progress of construction
on Brooklyn caisson
on Brooklyn tower
death of Fisk and
footbridge work and
fundraising for Chicago Fire and
Kingsley-Steinmetz brawl and
removal of W. Roebling and
on J. Roebling’s accident
wire fraud and
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Bridge viewed from.
churches of
panorama from
residents of
as socio-cultural center
Brooklyn Monthly
(magazine)
Brooklyn Ring
see also
Rink Committee (Committee of Fifty)
Brooklyn Theater
Brown (worker)
Brown, John
Brown, John C.
Brown, Joseph
Brown, Sir Samuel
Brunel, Isambard K.
Bryce, James Lord
Buchanan, James
Buck, Leffert L.
Burleigh Rock Drill Company
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose
Bush, J. Adriance
Cable cars, 436;
see also
Trains
Cable-making machinery
built
described
Cable stays, anchored
Cables
of Allegheny River Bridge
of Brooklyn Bridge
break in fall rope
brittleness of wire
cable wire contracts
carriers and carrier wheels
catenary curve of
completed
cradle cable
deaths due to
first crossing on
hoisting first
how strands form cables
material composing
offsetting pull and downward pressure of
saddle plates and saddles
see Saddle plates; Saddles
seizing of
size of
specifications for
spinning of
splicing of
stringing of
technique for anchoring
see also Anchorage travelers
wire fraud
of Cincinnati Bridge
of Niagara Bridge
of Pittsburgh aqueduct
Caissons
bridge success dependent on
Brooklyn
bearing surface of
bends from, see Bends—from Brooklyn caisson
blowout in supply shaft
building
clearing site for
excavating within
fire in
friction overcome
Great Blowout in
grounding of
launching of
life span of timber
New York caisson compared with
plans
set
sinking as hazard of job
size of
soil composition
timber and iron in
weight of
work crews of
New York
begins descent
bends from, see Bends—from
New York caisson
communication system in
Eads and
equipment for
launching of
ordered
protecting against worms
set
soil composition
strike over
work crews of
payroll tor digging
pneumatic
first used
as new technique
professional secrets
of St. Louis Bridge
W. Roebling as expert on
Cambria Iron Company
Campbell (comptroller of Brooklyn)
Cantilever system for St. Louis Bridge
Card (foreman)
Cardiff Giant (hoax)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carmen
(ship)
Carnegie, Andrew
Eads and
production of Bessemer steel and
residence of
W. Roebling on
St. Louis Bridge and
Carnegie (brother of Andrew)
Carroll, Thomas
Cary (member of Bridge Party)
Casualties
Brooklyn Bridge
from bends in Brooklyn caisson
from bends in New York caisson
Brooklyn anchorage accident
Brooklyn tower accident
promenade accident
snapped cable
total
Brooklyn Theater
from collapsed bridges
Ashtabula bridge
Queen bridge
Tay Bridge
Wheeling Bridge
See also Accidents
Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia Pa
Center span,
see
River span
Central Park (N.Y.C.)
Chain bridges
Challenge
(ship)
Chambers Street courthouse (N.Y.C.)
Channing, William Ellery
Chicago Fire (1871)
Chittenden, Simeon B
Chrome Steel Company
Cincinnati Bridge (Ohio)
extant
footbridge of
inaugurated
renovated
river span and width of
size of
wires of
City of Brooklyn
(ship)
Civil War
building of Cincinnati Bridge during
W. Roebling in
battles taken part in
bridges built during
correspondence with his wife
