The Great Bridge (96 page)

Timbs, Patrick

Titanic
(ship)

Tombs (N.Y.C. prison), materials used for building

Tooker, Commodore Joe

Towers

Allegheny River Bridge

Brooklyn

accidents and deaths

completing

description from top of

granite for

height of

keystone of arch

masonry on

roadway to tower finished

work suspended for winter (1872)

working on top

years taken to complete

Brooklyn Bridge

architectural features of.

capstones for

completing

drawings for

height of

cable positioning between, see Cables

of Cincinnati Bridge

of Clifton Bridge

New York

accidents and deaths

completing

masonry on

specifications for granite for

testing steel wire on

work suspended for winter (1872)

of Niagara Bridge

“righted down” caisson and

see also Caissons

roadway to finished

stores for

wooden foundations for

Trains

Brooklyn Bridge

begin runs

cable car

for center of bridge

device invented for

fare

passengers handled (by 1888)

plans for

Pullman and freight

first locomotive

pneumatic

Travelers

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
(film)

Trenton
Daily State Gazette
(newspaper)

Trenton Iron Works

Tribune Building (N.Y.C.)

Triger (French engineer)

Trusswork

plans for

steel used for

to allow train travel

to widen roadways (1948)

Tunnels

advantages of

Big Bend Tunnel

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

built under Confederate lines

under Chicago River

Mont Cenis

pneumatic

“Turtles” used in Civil War

Twain, Mark

Tweed, Mary

Tweed, William M. (Boss)

arrested

A. Beach and

Bridge plans and

bridge stock and

death of

downfall of

as executive member of New York Bridge Company

influence of

marriage of daughter of

Murphy opposed by

political ascension of

Rink Committee investigation and

testimonies of

See also Tweed Ring

Tweed Ring

attempts to control Bridge

bookkeeper of

breakup of

Committee of Investigation

effects on Kings County Democrats

1871 elections

New York Times publishes documents

New York World investigates

Rink Committee investigates

caricatured

Grant and

as product of urban environment

system of operation of

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(Verne)

Union (newspaper)

award of cable wire contract and

breakup of Tweed Ring and

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

Union and Argus
(newspaper)

Union Ferry Company

Union Pacific Railroad

United States Illuminating Company

Van Anden, Isaac

Vandalia
(ship)

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Vanderbilt, John

Vanderbilt, William H..

Vanderbilt, Mrs. William

Van Keuren, H. R.

Van Rensselaer, Stephen

Van Schaick, Jenkins

Vaux, Calvert

Vehicle crossings, first

Verne, Jules

Vibrations

of Allegheny River Bridge

of Niagara Bridge.

of Smithfield Street Bridge

Victoria (Queen of England)

Vinton, Gen. Francis

Warren, Edgar

Warren, Emily, see Roebling, Emily

Warren, Gen. G. K.

W. Roebling on

Warren, John

Warren, Sylvanus

Warren, William

Washburn’s (wire manufacturer)

Washington, George

Water closet, pneumatic

Water shafts

blasting and

blowouts of

frequency of

Great Blowout

boulders and

described

failure of

Watson, James

Webb & Bell (shipyards)

Brooklyn caisson built by

Eads visits

location of

New York caisson built by

Weber, Max

Weir, Robert

West, the, opening (1869)

Western Union Telegraph Building (N.Y.C.)

Wheeling Bridge (W.Va.)

collapse of

river span of

Whiskey Ring

Whitman, Walt

Williamsburg Bridge (N.Y.C.)

Wilson, Mrs. William G.

Winona
(ferry)

Winterset
(film)

Wire fraud.

Wire suspension bridges

first built (1816)

Witte, Otto

Woodhull, Victoria

Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
(magazine)

“Woodman, Spare That Tree” (Morris)

Working conditions inside Brooklyn caisson,
see also
Bends

Work crews

Brooklyn caisson

Brooklyn Bridge

for building bridge

maintenance of

New York caisson

strike of

Wright, Gen. Horatio

Yantic
(ship)

Young, Brigham

Young, Charles

Young Men’s Literary Association of Brooklyn

Young Men’s Reform Association