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