Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty

Author:Rachel Dougherty [Dougherty, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

When the Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883, the two

cities set off rockets and fireworks. Bands played from steamboats

below all night long. Crowds gathered on both riverbanks, and on

boats in between, to celebrate the great feat of engineering—

never even knowing about the contributions of an insistent woman

named Emily Roebling.

Author’s  Note

As a child, I was a stream of questions. Why do crabs walk sideways, how do kites stay up, who makes traffic lights?

My parents filled my bookshelves with encyclopedias and biographies, and I fell in love with the real men and women of

history who answered my questions. Some biographies began so impressively that I’d know right from the first page that

the subject was special. But my favorites have always been the underdogs—the ones who have greatness dropped in their

laps. That’s how I came to love Emily Roebling.

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