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visitation of his mother and
visits Germany (1867)
Roebling, Washington A., III (son of Charles Roebling)
Roebling, Willie (son of John Roebling)
Roebling (Pa.), building
Roebling Bridge,
see
Brooklyn Bridge
Rogers, Patrick
Roosevelt, Robert
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosa, Rudolph
Rossiter, Thomas R.
Royal Albert (bridge in Cornwall)
RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Rushing, General
Saddle plates
Saddles, specifications for
St. Louis Bridge (Mo.)
air locks of
bends and building of
caissons for
cantilever system for
completed
safety of
steam elevator in
St. Patrick’s Cathedral (N.Y.C.)
Sand hogs
Sandy and Beaver Canal
Saratoga
(ship)
Saxonburg (Pa.), as German settlement
Saw Mill & Lumber Company
Schiller, J. C. F. von
Schlatter, Charles L.
Schroeder, F. A.
Schuyler, Montgomery
Schuylkill suspension bridges (Pa.)
Scientific American
(magazine)
Scudder (judge)
Sea worms, protecting caissons from
Seances
Seguin (French engineer)
Sellers, William
Semler, Ludwig Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
removal of W. Roebling and
Serrell, Edward
Serrell, John L.
Seventy, Committee of, breakup of Tweed Ring by
Committee of Investigation and
effects on Kings County Democrats
1871 elections and
New York Times publishes documents
New York World investigates
Rink Committee investigates
Shafer, Ira
Shenandoah suspension bridge
Sheridan, Gen. Philip
Sherman, Gen. William T.
Shinkle, Amos
Shipyards of Brooklyn
Sickles, Gen. Daniel E..
Sickness, cold and bronchitis
see also
Bends
Slocum, Gen. Henry
accusation against Paine and
award of cable wire contracts and
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
in Civil War
Committee of Investigation report and
at launching of New York caisson
mission assigned to
political ambitions of
removal of W. Roebling and
Rink Committee investigation and
at J. Roebling’s funeral
sale of bridge stock and
stock ownership of
Slocum, Mrs. Henry
Smallfield, John D.
Smith, Al
Smith, Andrew H., bends studies of
findings on
theories of
Smith, Hugh
breakup of Tweed Ring and
bridge stock and
at marriage of Tweed’s daughter
Rink Committee investigation and
Smith, Gen. Kirby
Smith, Gen. William
Smithfield Street Bridge (Pa.)
Songs on Brooklyn Bridge
Squat sperm candles for lighting caissons
Standard Oil Company
Starruca Viaduct (Pa.)
State legislature (N.Y.), approves bill for building Brooklyn Bridge
Steam drills
Steel
brittleness of
conflict over type to use
contract for
deck
diameter of
floor beams of
fraud involving quality of
manufacturing of
specifications for
superstructure of
use of
first planned
questioned
See also Bessemer steel; Crucible steel
Steele, J. Dutton
Steer, Henry
Steinman
Steinmetz, William G..
Stella, Joseph
Stephenson, Robert
Stewart, A. T.
Stewart, Elvira (daughter of John Roebling)
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
characteristics of
Washington Roebling’s meeting with Emily and
Stewart, John (husband of Elvira)
Stiles, Henry
Stock of New York Bridge Company graft and
ownership of
scandal over
selling
Tweed Ring control of
value of
Stokes, Edward
Storrs, Richard
Stourbridge Lion
(first U.S. locomotive)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Stranahan, James S. T.
award of cable wire contracts and
breakup of Tweed Ring and
bridge trains and
Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and
Committee of Investigation report and
crosses roadway
death of
New York World attacks
removal of W. Roebling and
Rink Committee investigation and
stock ownership of
testifies in Miller suit, 4
Stranahan, Mrs. James S. T.
Strauss, Johann
Strikes
attacks of bends and
Great Railroad Strike
Strong, George Templeton
Stroud, Henry
Stuart, Gen. J. E. B. (Jeb)
Subways, opening of first
Suez Canal
Suicides
from Brooklyn Bridge contemplated
first
friend of W. Roebling commits
Sullivan, Louis
Superstructure alterations in
completed
steel for
weight of iron
Supple, Harry
Supply shafts
blowout in
New York caisson
Suspenders
function of
in place
specifications for
Suspension bridges
built by W. Roebling during Civil War
“chain bridge,”
first suspension aqueduct
poorly built
primitive
as spiritual or ideal conception
very first
See also specific bridges
Sutter Street Railways
Swan, Alden S.
Swan, Charles
as member of Bridge Party
retires
J. Roebling and
death of Roebling and
W. Roebling and
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Sweeny, Peter (Brains)
and breakup of Tweed Ring flees the country
Rink Committee investigation and
bridge stock and
at marriage of Tweed’s daughter
Swertcope, John Valentine
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Wash.)
Talmage, T. DeWitt
Tay Bridge (Scotland)
Telford, Thomas
Tennessee (ship)
Terminals
Thurber, H. K.
Tilden, Samuel
Tilton, Elizabeth
scandal involving
Tilton, Theodore