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A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century. Full description
Table of Contents:
- The Plan
- Man of Iron
- The Genuine Language of America
- Father and Son
- Brooklyn
- The Proper Person to See
- The Chief Engineer
- All According to Plan
- Down in the Caisson
- Fire
- The Past Catches Up
- How Natural, Right, and Proper
- The Mysterious Disorder
- The Heroic Mode
- At the Halfway Mark
- Spirits of '76
- A Perfect Pandemonium
- Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
- The Gigantic Spinning Machine
- Wire Fraud
- Emily
- The Man in the Window
- And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
- The People's Day.