The Great Bridge (89 page)

tunnel at Petersburg and

on the war

social effects of

“Turtles” used in

Gen. Warren in

Clarke, Thomas C., Jr

Clausen, Henry

Cleveland, Grover

at Brooklyn Bridge inauguration

Cleveland Rolling Mill

Clifton Bridge (England)

Clinton
(ferry)

Coal mine accidents

Cochrane, Admiral Lord Thomas

Collapsed bridges, casualties from

Ashtabula bridge

Quebec bridge

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Tay Bridge

Wheeling Bridge

Collingwood, Francis, Jr

Brooklyn caisson and

Brooklyn tower accident and

footbridge work and

New York caisson and

New York tower and

W. Roebling’s correspondence with

at RPI alumni gathering

testifies in Miller suit

Collins, Charles

Colorado Fuel & Iron Company

Coman, Thomas

Comet
(ship)

Committee of Investigation (of New York Bridge Company)

Competition among engineers

Compressed air

air system described

compressors

escape of, while pouring concrete

fire in Brooklyn caisson

increasing depth and air problems

physical derangements caused by

pressure required

See also Air locks

Compressed air “baths” against bends

Concrete

for Brooklyn caisson

compressed air escape while pouring

for New York caisson

for repairing fire damage

Coney Island (Brooklyn)

Coney Island Railroad

Connolly, Richard B., “Slippery Dick,”

breakup of Tweed Ring and

Rink Committee investigation and

at marriage of Tweed’s daughter

Cooper, Edward

Cooper, Lucia,
see
Roebling, Lucia

Cooper, Peter

Cooper, Theodore

Cooperation among engineers

Cope (worker)

Copeland, William

Corliss, George H.

Corliss steam engine

Corporations, growth of

Corruption, as product of city environment

see also Brooklyn Ring; Tweed Ring; Whis key Ring; Wire fraud

Cost

of Brooklyn Bridge

of caissons

estimated

fare

of fire in Brooklyn caisson

of terminal buildings

of Cincinnati Bridge

of first suspension bridge

of Hoosac Tunnel

of Pittsburgh aqueduct

of St. Louis Bridge

of Smithfield Street Bridge

Crane, Hart

Crazy Horse (Sioux chief)

Crook, Gen. George

Crossings

boatswain

of completed bridge

first pedestrian

number on opening day

by E. Roebling

of footbridge

of roadway

Crucible steel

conflict over use of

described

Cullen, E. M.

Custer, Gen. George A

Custom House (N.Y.C.)

Daily Graphic
(newspaper)

Dams built by J. Roebling

Daugherty (worker)

Davidson, Marshall P

Davis, Andrew

Davis, John G

Deaths, see Casualties

Deck, steel

Democratic National Convention (1852)

Democratic state convention (1882)

Democratic Vistas
(Whitman)

Dempsey (foreman)

Detwiller & Street

Dewey, S. Foster

Diagonal stays

of Brooklyn Bridge

of Cincinnati Bridge

first use of

of Wheeling Bridge

Diary of My Journey from Muehlausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States of North America in the Year
1831 (J. Roebling)

Dickens, Charles

Donovan, Larry

Douglas, Thomas

Dredge buckets

Dredging

for Brooklyn caisson

for New York caisson

Dredging equipment

breakdown of

crews to operate

Dufy, Raoul

Eads, Capt. James B.

caisson sickness (bends) and

death of

W. Roebling on

St. Louis Bridge built by, see St. Louis Bridge

sues W. Roebling

Early, Gen. Jubal

East River

currents of

problems presented by

shipbuilding along

East River Bridge,
see
Brooklyn Bridge

East River ferries

Edgar Thomson works

Edge Moor Iron Company

Edison, Thomas

Edison Company

Edson, Franklin

Effie Afton
(ship)

Eisenhardt (ex-soldier)

Elections, fraudulent

in Brooklyn

Presidential

Elements
(Euclid)

Ellet, Charles, Jr.

collapse of Wheeling Bridge and

plans for St. Louis Bridge and

rams built by

Ely, Smith

Emeline
(ship)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emott, James

Empire Bridge,
see
Brooklyn Bridge

Engineering
(magazine)

Engineering staff of New York Bridge

Company

Collingwood, Francis, Jr.; Farrington, E. F.; Hildenbrand, Wilhelm; Martin, C. C.; McNulty, George; Paine, Col. William H.; Probasco, Samuel; Roebling, John A.; Roebling, Washington A.

Ericsson, John

Erie Canal

Erie Railroad

Evarts, William M.

Everett, Edward

Fairchild, Charles

Fare, bridge train

Farrington, E. F.

Brooklyn caisson and

Brooklyn tower and

cable positioning and

cable snaps

crossing over cables

Emily Roebling and

floor planking and

footbridge work and

in charge of work

resigns

salary of

Farrow, Cornelia Witsell

Ferries

Feininger, Lyonel

Fifty, Committee of,
see
Rink Committee

Films, Brooklyn Bridge in

Finley, James

Fires

in Brooklyn caisson

damage

in Brooklyn Theater

Chicago

Rock Island Bridge

on General Slocum

Pittsburgh aqueduct destroyed by

Fish, Hamilton

Fish, Julia

Fisk, Jim

Black Friday and