Roebling had set out with his brother Karl and a group of pioneers from Germany in 1831 to flee the general unrest and oppression in Europe.

Florence CDP had a 2010 population of 4, 426 while Roebling had a population of 3, 715.

John Roebling and Johanna Herting had nine children:

By now, Roebling had built himself a reputation.

Roebling had used Johnson's wire for one of his other bridges.

As Vincent's brigade began moving into position, Warren and Roebling had left the hill and Roebling was able to send the 140th New York Volunteers to the hill, not knowing that Vincent's brigade was already engaging advancing Confederate troops.

His wife, Emily Warren Roebling, who had taken it upon herself to learn bridge construction, became his nurse, companion, and confidant and took over much of the chief engineer's duties including day-to-day supervision and project management.

The United States Marine Corps, which had been developing amphibious warfare doctrine based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Earl Hancock " Pete " Ellis and others, became interested in the machine after learning about it through an article in Life magazine and convinced Roebling to design a more seaworthy model for military use.

Mistakenly believing Ellet had won the contract, Roebling wrote to offer his congratulations and requested to be Ellet's assistant.

When Roebling learned that a contractor had won the bid, he successfully applied to be the contractor's chief engineer.

When Roebling was called to the Niagara Suspension Bridge project in 1851, he had six suspension structures to his name.

Roebling had another design in mind: the double-deck bridge he had proposed earlier during the bidding.

Comprising Roebling and his son, as well as their fellow bridge engineers, generals, businessmen, and high society figures, the party toured the country to review four bridges Roebling had built before the civil war.

John A. Roebling & Sons company built and provided the steel for the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, as well as numerous other bridges including one over Niagara Falls.

Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, built by John A. Roebling, famed engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was constructed in 1848 as part of the canal.

In Trenton, Roebling built a large industrial complex for wire production.

While the Niagara bridge was being built, Roebling undertook another railway suspension bridge, across the Kentucky River which required a clear span of 1, 224 feet ( 373m ).

His son Charles Roebling designed and invented a huge 80 ton wire rope machine and founded the town of Roebling, New Jersey where the John A. Roebling's Sons company steel mill was built.

Some of the most important donors are Washington A. Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, who gave 16, 000 specimens to the collection, Frederick A. Canfield, who donated 9, 000 specimens to the collection, and Dr. Isaac Lea, who donated the base of the museum ’ s collection of 1312 gems and minerals.

During his tenure as mayor, he served as a member of board of the New York Bridge Company, the company that built the Brooklyn Bridge, and led an unsuccessful effort to remove Washington Roebling as the chief engineer of the project.

Two years later, Roebling built a redesigned vehicle with greatly improved water speed.

" It is not known if he built this house, but similarly to Washington Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge, he could overlook the project from his window.

" He was the great-grandson of John A. Roebling and the grandson of Colonel Washington A. Roebling, who respectively designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge.

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of caissons, resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by caisson disease during its construction, including the designer's son and Chief Engineer of the project, Washington Roebling.

Brookland takes as its basis Thomas Pope ’ s Rainbow Bridge, a bridge that was proposed for the East River nearly a hundred years before the construction of John Roebling ’ s Brooklyn Bridge, but which was never actually built.

Aqueducts were built over the rivers to replace them by John Roebling in the 1840s, cutting a few days from canal travel time and reducing accidents that were occurring at the Delaware crossing with loggers rafting their harvest downstream.

John A. Roebling | John Augustus Roebling built several prominent suspension bridges in the United States, earning him the esteem of the engineering community.

Roebling proved that despite popular opinion, properly built suspension bridges can safely support the passage of heavy railway traffic.

It was designed by and built under the supervision of John A. Roebling, who would design the Brooklyn Bridge twenty years later.

January 1: John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge | Roebling Suspension Bridge was the longest suspension bridge.

* July 22 – John A. Roebling, American bridge engineer ( b. 1806 )

John Roebling proposed continuing the canal over the river on a suspension bridge / aqueduct.

The borough overlooks the Delaware River spanned by a 1904 Roebling bridge with a walkway crossing to New Jersey.

In 1859 Roebling completed another suspension bridge at Pittsburgh.

The Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, later named the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, was the world's longest suspension bridge at the time it was finished.

Their designers found that the combination of technologies created a stiffer bridge, and John A. Roebling took particular advantage of this to limit deformations due to railway loads in the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge.

The bar and restaurant district at the foot of the bridge on the Kentucky side is known as Roebling Point.

The Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company was incorporated in February 1846, and the company asked Roebling about a bridge plan.

Roebling also specified that the company should be left autonomous in regard to decision making concerning the placement of the bridge along the river.

President Ramson of the bridge company traveled to see Roebling, who was in Iowa, and he secured a contract to build the bridge.

* June 12-John A. Roebling, German American bridge engineer ( died 1869 )

* July 22-John A. Roebling ( born 1806 ), German American bridge engineer.

The original bridge was designed by the famous Roebling brothers, who also designed the Brooklyn Bridge.

" The clubhouse is one of the first reinforced concrete structures designed in Philadelphia, and also includes the world's first above grade swimming pool, designed by the noted bridge builders Roebling Construction Company.

Roebling used Ellet's bridge as scaffolding to build the double-decked bridge.

At the time of the bidding, Ellet and Roebling were acknowledged as masters of suspension bridge building in America.

Roebling submitted two designs, a conservative single-deck suspension bridge and a double-decked version, both with meticulous calculations and drawings.