Pneumatic water closet
Poems on Brooklyn Bridge
Pol M. B.
Police Gazette
(newspaper)
Pope, Thomas
Population of Brooklyn and New York
1869:
1883:
1930:
Portage Railroad
Post, George B.
Powell, Samuel S.
Prentice, John H.
Probasco, Samuel
Promenade
accident on
projected elevated
Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
Prototype of suspension bridges
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pyramid Pin Company
Quebec bridge (Canada), collapse of
Queensboro Bridge (N.Y.C.)
Quintard, Orestes P.
Railroad Journal
(magazine)
Railroads
accident in
bridges crossed by
Niagara Bridge and
first locomotive, see also Trains growth of
J. Roebling and
See also specific railroads
Rainbow Bridge (projected bridge)
Rappahannock suspension bridge (Md.)
Rawlins, John A.
Raymond, Rossiter W.
Reading Railroad
Reardon (worker)
Reed (worker)
Reed, Walter
Rendel (British engineer)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Restell, Madame
Revenues
from Allegheny River Bridge
from Cincinnati Bridge
expected from Brooklyn Bridge
Richard Johnson & Nephew
Riedel, Edward
Riley, E.
Riley, James
Riley, John
Rink Committee (Committee of Fifty)
investigates New York Bridge Company
organized
River span
of Brooklyn Bridge
criticized
elevation of
elevation raised
length extended
of Cincinnati Bridge
of Jacob’s Creek suspension bridge
of Niagara Bridge
of Smithfield Street Bridge
of Wheeling Bridge
Roadway
of Brooklyn Bridge
completed
first crossing on
specifications of
of Cincinnati Bridge
Robinson, Capt. Joel
Rock Island Bridge (Ill.)
Rock Island Railroad
Rocks
in excavating for Brooklyn caisson
in excavating for New York caisson
Roebling, Charles (son of John Roebling)
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
son of
in wire business
cable making for Williamsburg Bridge
display for Machinery Hall
Roebling, Christoph Polycarpus (father of John Roebling)
Roebling, Cornelia (second wife of Washington Roebling)
Roebling, Edmund (son of John Roebling)
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
W. Roebling on
W. Roebling as guardian of
visitation from relatives and
Roebling, Elvira (daughter of John Roebling),
see
Stewart, Elvira
Roebling, Emily (first wife of Washington Roebling)
in Brooklyn Bridge building activity on assistant engineers
attempts to remove Washington
Brooklyn Bridge opening
crosses completed bridge
influence and importance of Emily
interviewed
New York caisson positioning
plaques honoring
steel deck
strands for cables
Tay Bridge tragedy
visit to bridge in progress
visits Europe (1867)
wire fraud
child of
last years of
Roebling family and
John’s death
John meets
Washington on his father
G. K. Warren’s fate and
Washington’s health and Emily’s growing influence and importance
his death expected
on his health
newspaper reading sessions
as nurse and secretary
recuperation in Europe
rest in Newport and
Washington’s marriage with as constant companions
correspondence during Civil War
courtship
Emily on her husband
joins Washington in Cincinnati
Washington as Edmund’s guardian
Washington on his wife
Washington’s resignation from bridge work
Washington’s return to bridge work
Roebling, Ferdinand (son of John Roebling)
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
Emily and
his father on
relationship between Washington and
in wire business
cable wire bids
display for Machinery Hall
Edmund in wire business
steel wire and
suit envisaged by
takes charge of wire business
Roebling, Friederike Dorothea (mother of John Roebling)
Roebling, Johanna (first wife of John Roebling)
characteristics of
death of
John buried next to
moves to Trenton
visitation from
Roebling, John A.
birth of
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
Brooklyn Bridge plans of
appointed Chief Engineer
approval for plans
benefits to be derived from building
bridge specifications
cable strength and
caissons and
critics of proposed bridge and
estimated building time
estimated cost
finding center line and
on foundations
graft involved
height of towers
investment in bridge
location of bridge
lumber purchased
personnel
political background
presenting plans
producing the plans
public scrutiny of plans
supplies
tower capstones
trains in
venality
characteristics of
admired
believer in hydropathy