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Timbs, Patrick

Titanic
(ship)

Tombs (N.Y.C. prison), materials used for building

Tooker, Commodore Joe

Towers

 

Allegheny River Bridge

 

Brooklyn

 

accidents and deaths

 

completing

 

description from top of

 

granite for

 

height of

 

keystone of arch

 

masonry on

 

roadway to tower finished

 

work suspended for winter (1872)

 

working on top

 

years taken to complete

 

Brooklyn Bridge

 

architectural features of.

 

capstones for

 

completing

 

drawings for

 

height of

 

cable positioning between, see Cables

 

of Cincinnati Bridge

 

of Clifton Bridge

 

New York

 

accidents and deaths

 

completing

 

masonry on

 

specifications for granite for

 

testing steel wire on

 

work suspended for winter (1872)

 

of Niagara Bridge

 

“righted down” caisson and

 

see also Caissons

 

roadway to finished

 

stores for

 

wooden foundations for

Trains

 

Brooklyn Bridge

 

begin runs

 

cable car

 

for center of bridge

 

device invented for

 

fare

 

passengers handled (by 1888)

 

plans for

 

Pullman and freight

 

first locomotive

 

pneumatic

Travelers

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
(film)

Trenton
Daily State Gazette
(newspaper)

Trenton Iron Works

Tribune Building (N.Y.C.)

Triger (French engineer)

Trusswork

 

plans for

 

steel used for

 

to allow train travel

 

to widen roadways (1948)

Tunnels

 

advantages of

 

Big Bend Tunnel

 

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

 

built under Confederate lines

 

under Chicago River

 

Mont Cenis

 

pneumatic

“Turtles” used in Civil War

Twain, Mark

Tweed, Mary

Tweed, William M. (Boss)

 

arrested

 

A. Beach and

 

Bridge plans and

 

bridge stock and

 

death of

 

downfall of

 

as executive member of New York Bridge Company

 

influence of

 

marriage of daughter of

 

Murphy opposed by

 

political ascension of

 

Rink Committee investigation and

 

testimonies of

 

See also Tweed Ring

Tweed Ring

 

attempts to control Bridge

 

bookkeeper of

 

breakup of

 

Committee of Investigation

 

effects on Kings County Democrats

 

1871 elections

 

New York Times publishes documents

 

New York World investigates

 

Rink Committee investigates

 

caricatured

 

Grant and

 

as product of urban environment

 

system of operation of

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(Verne)

Union (newspaper)

 

award of cable wire contract and

 

breakup of Tweed Ring and

 

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

Union and Argus
(newspaper)

Union Ferry Company

Union Pacific Railroad

United States Illuminating Company

Van Anden, Isaac

Vandalia
(ship)

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Vanderbilt, John

Vanderbilt, William H..

Vanderbilt, Mrs. William

Van Keuren, H. R.

Van Rensselaer, Stephen

Van Schaick, Jenkins

Vaux, Calvert

Vehicle crossings, first

Verne, Jules

Vibrations

 

of Allegheny River Bridge

 

of Niagara Bridge.

 

of Smithfield Street Bridge

Victoria (Queen of England)

Vinton, Gen. Francis

Warren, Edgar

Warren, Emily, see Roebling, Emily

Warren, Gen. G. K.

 

W. Roebling on

Warren, John

Warren, Sylvanus

Warren, William

Washburn’s (wire manufacturer)

Washington, George

Water closet, pneumatic

Water shafts

 

blasting and

 

blowouts of

 

frequency of

 

Great Blowout

 

boulders and

 

described

 

failure of

Watson, James

Webb & Bell (shipyards)

 

Brooklyn caisson built by

 

Eads visits

 

location of

 

New York caisson built by

Weber, Max

Weir, Robert

West, the, opening (1869)

Western Union Telegraph Building (N.Y.C.)

Wheeling Bridge (W.Va.)

 

collapse of

 

river span of

Whiskey Ring

Whitman, Walt

Williamsburg Bridge (N.Y.C.)

Wilson, Mrs. William G.

Winona
(ferry)

Winterset
(film)

Wire fraud.

Wire suspension bridges

 

first built (1816)

Witte, Otto

Woodhull, Victoria

Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
(magazine)

“Woodman, Spare That Tree” (Morris)

Working conditions inside Brooklyn caisson,
see also
Bends

Work crews

 

Brooklyn caisson

 

Brooklyn Bridge

 

for building bridge

 

maintenance of

 

New York caisson

 

strike of

Wright, Gen. Horatio

Yantic
(ship)

Young, Brigham

Young, Charles

Young Men’s Literary Association of Brooklyn

Young Men’s Reform Association

*
The Pittsburgh
Gazette
made much of the fact that the structure was strong enough to carry the water plus six heavily loaded barges all at the same time, the editors being unaware apparently that the boats merely displaced their own weight and so the total load remained the same, whether boats were crossing or not.
 

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