The Great Bridge (93 page)

Pneumatic water closet

Poems on Brooklyn Bridge

Pol M. B.

Police Gazette
(newspaper)

Pope, Thomas

Population of Brooklyn and New York

1869:

1883:

1930:

Portage Railroad

Post, George B.

Powell, Samuel S.

Prentice, John H.

Probasco, Samuel

Promenade

accident on

projected elevated

Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

Prototype of suspension bridges

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pyramid Pin Company

Quebec bridge (Canada), collapse of

Queensboro Bridge (N.Y.C.)

Quintard, Orestes P.

Railroad Journal
(magazine)

Railroads

accident in

bridges crossed by

Niagara Bridge and

first locomotive, see also Trains growth of

J. Roebling and

See also specific railroads

Rainbow Bridge (projected bridge)

Rappahannock suspension bridge (Md.)

Rawlins, John A.

Raymond, Rossiter W.

Reading Railroad

Reardon (worker)

Reed (worker)

Reed, Walter

Rendel (British engineer)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Restell, Madame

Revenues

from Allegheny River Bridge

from Cincinnati Bridge

expected from Brooklyn Bridge

Richard Johnson & Nephew

Riedel, Edward

Riley, E.

Riley, James

Riley, John

Rink Committee (Committee of Fifty)

investigates New York Bridge Company

organized

River span

of Brooklyn Bridge

criticized

elevation of

elevation raised

length extended

of Cincinnati Bridge

of Jacob’s Creek suspension bridge

of Niagara Bridge

of Smithfield Street Bridge

of Wheeling Bridge

Roadway

of Brooklyn Bridge

completed

first crossing on

specifications of

of Cincinnati Bridge

Robinson, Capt. Joel

Rock Island Bridge (Ill.)

Rock Island Railroad

Rocks

in excavating for Brooklyn caisson

in excavating for New York caisson

Roebling, Charles (son of John Roebling)

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

son of

in wire business

cable making for Williamsburg Bridge

display for Machinery Hall

Roebling, Christoph Polycarpus (father of John Roebling)

Roebling, Cornelia (second wife of Washington Roebling)

Roebling, Edmund (son of John Roebling)

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

W. Roebling on

W. Roebling as guardian of

visitation from relatives and

Roebling, Elvira (daughter of John Roebling),
see
Stewart, Elvira

Roebling, Emily (first wife of Washington Roebling)

in Brooklyn Bridge building activity on assistant engineers

attempts to remove Washington

Brooklyn Bridge opening

crosses completed bridge

influence and importance of Emily

interviewed

New York caisson positioning

plaques honoring

steel deck

strands for cables

Tay Bridge tragedy

visit to bridge in progress

visits Europe (1867)

wire fraud

child of

last years of

Roebling family and

John’s death

John meets

Washington on his father

G. K. Warren’s fate and

Washington’s health and Emily’s growing influence and importance

his death expected

on his health

newspaper reading sessions

as nurse and secretary

recuperation in Europe

rest in Newport and

Washington’s marriage with as constant companions

correspondence during Civil War

courtship

Emily on her husband

joins Washington in Cincinnati

Washington as Edmund’s guardian

Washington on his wife

Washington’s resignation from bridge work

Washington’s return to bridge work

Roebling, Ferdinand (son of John Roebling)

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

Emily and

his father on

relationship between Washington and

in wire business

cable wire bids

display for Machinery Hall

Edmund in wire business

steel wire and

suit envisaged by

takes charge of wire business

Roebling, Friederike Dorothea (mother of John Roebling)

Roebling, Johanna (first wife of John Roebling)

characteristics of

death of

John buried next to

moves to Trenton

visitation from

Roebling, John A.

birth of

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

Brooklyn Bridge plans of

appointed Chief Engineer

approval for plans

benefits to be derived from building

bridge specifications

cable strength and

caissons and

critics of proposed bridge and

estimated building time

estimated cost

finding center line and

on foundations

graft involved

height of towers

investment in bridge

location of bridge

lumber purchased

personnel

political background

presenting plans

producing the plans

public scrutiny of plans

supplies

tower capstones

trains in

venality

characteristics of

admired

believer in hydropathy