The Great Bridge (88 page)

Brooklyn City Hall

Brooklyn Club

Brooklyn
Eagle (Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat;
news paper)

award of cable wire contracts and

on Beecher

on Bridge Party

on Brooklyn

bridge train plans and

on cable positioning

on contemplated suicides from

Bridge

on inauguration

Brooklyn
Eagle

on progress of construction

on Brooklyn caisson

on Brooklyn tower

death of Fisk and

footbridge work and

fundraising for Chicago Fire and

Kingsley-Steinmetz brawl and

removal of W. Roebling and

on J. Roebling’s accident

wire fraud and

Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Bridge viewed from.

churches of

panorama from

residents of

as socio-cultural center

Brooklyn Monthly
(magazine)

Brooklyn Ring

see also
Rink Committee (Committee of Fifty)

Brooklyn Theater

Brown (worker)

Brown, John

Brown, John C.

Brown, Joseph

Brown, Sir Samuel

Brunel, Isambard K.

Bryce, James Lord

Buchanan, James

Buck, Leffert L.

Burleigh Rock Drill Company

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose

Bush, J. Adriance

Cable cars, 436;
see also
Trains

Cable-making machinery

built

described

Cable stays, anchored

Cables

of Allegheny River Bridge

of Brooklyn Bridge

break in fall rope

brittleness of wire

cable wire contracts

carriers and carrier wheels

catenary curve of

completed

cradle cable

deaths due to

first crossing on

hoisting first

how strands form cables

material composing

offsetting pull and downward pressure of

saddle plates and saddles

see Saddle plates; Saddles

seizing of

size of

specifications for

spinning of

splicing of

stringing of

technique for anchoring

see also Anchorage travelers

wire fraud

of Cincinnati Bridge

of Niagara Bridge

of Pittsburgh aqueduct

Caissons

bridge success dependent on

Brooklyn

bearing surface of

bends from, see Bends—from Brooklyn caisson

blowout in supply shaft

building

clearing site for

excavating within

fire in

friction overcome

Great Blowout in

grounding of

launching of

life span of timber

New York caisson compared with

plans

set

sinking as hazard of job

size of

soil composition

timber and iron in

weight of

work crews of

New York

begins descent

bends from, see Bends—from

New York caisson

communication system in

Eads and

equipment for

launching of

ordered

protecting against worms

set

soil composition

strike over

work crews of

payroll tor digging

pneumatic

first used

as new technique

professional secrets

of St. Louis Bridge

W. Roebling as expert on

Cambria Iron Company

Campbell (comptroller of Brooklyn)

Cantilever system for St. Louis Bridge

Card (foreman)

Cardiff Giant (hoax)

Carlyle, Thomas

Carmen
(ship)

Carnegie, Andrew

Eads and

production of Bessemer steel and

residence of

W. Roebling on

St. Louis Bridge and

Carnegie (brother of Andrew)

Carroll, Thomas

Cary (member of Bridge Party)

Casualties

Brooklyn Bridge

from bends in Brooklyn caisson

from bends in New York caisson

Brooklyn anchorage accident

Brooklyn tower accident

promenade accident

snapped cable

total

Brooklyn Theater

from collapsed bridges

Ashtabula bridge

Queen bridge

Tay Bridge

Wheeling Bridge

See also Accidents

Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia Pa

Center span,
see
River span

Central Park (N.Y.C.)

Chain bridges

Challenge
(ship)

Chambers Street courthouse (N.Y.C.)

Channing, William Ellery

Chicago Fire (1871)

Chittenden, Simeon B

Chrome Steel Company

Cincinnati Bridge (Ohio)

extant

footbridge of

inaugurated

renovated

river span and width of

size of

wires of

City of Brooklyn
(ship)

Civil War

building of Cincinnati Bridge during

W. Roebling in

battles taken part in

bridges built during

correspondence with his wife