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19 unusual facts about Brooklyn Bridge


Allentown National Bank

The concrete ceilings were installed by Roebling Construction Co., founded by the same Roebling family that built the Brooklyn Bridge.

Bucksport, South Carolina

Lumber from Buck's operation even went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Divi Blasii, Mühlhausen

The Gothic architecture of the church is said to have been an influence on the design of Brooklyn Bridge by John A. Roebling who grew up in Mühlhausen.

Eliphalet Williams Bliss

Bliss' company also supplied part of the material used in building the Brooklyn Bridge.

Fletcher's Laxative

At the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, there were Castoria ads on virtually every blank wall in sight.

Florence-Roebling, New Jersey

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.

Frank Trenholm Coffyn

The Vitagraph Film Company had him shoot the first aerial footage of New York City where he flew under the Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge in his Mayea Boat & Aeroplane Works plane.

Hogg's Hollow Bridge

The four structures are the busiest multi-span bridge crossing in North America, surpassing the Brooklyn Bridge.

John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge

This very closely resembled the opposition to the Brooklyn Bridge that would be voiced in New York City 30 years later.

Kelham Island Quarter

This area and sheffield as a city has supplied much of the steel for some of the greatest bridges in history (e.g. the Brooklyn Bridge, New York/Brooklyn)

King Kong Encounter

As the tram rounded a corner, it drove out onto the Brooklyn Bridge, putting guests at eye-level with the giant animatronic ape.

LeVeque Tower

C. Howard Crane devised a system derived from the method used to build the foundations for the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge

All the tracks were recorded live on 22 November 2004, at a "surprise" concert held in Brooklyn, New York under the Brooklyn Bridge at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park.

Luther Standing Bear

Standing Bear interpreted and recruited students for Pratt at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, led the Carlisle Indian Band across the Brooklyn Bridge upon its opening ceremony on May 24, 1883, and served as a student intern for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Magnesium oxide wallboard

However, New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge base is made from locally mined cement, a mixture of calcium oxide and magnesia cement commonly called Rosendale Natural Cement, the only natural non-fired cement made in the US.

Paddy Ryan

Ryan was one of a party of gentlemen entertained by Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, on the morning of May 19, 1885, the day he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and was killed.

Saxonburg, Pennsylvania

Founded in 1832 by John A. Roebling, who is known for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, and for innovation in producing wire rope, the community was initially called "Germania", which was soon changed to "Sachsenburg" and eventually anglicized to Saxonburg.

The Legend of the Titanic

Everyone runs to the Brooklyn Bridge and sees a huge flotilla of whales and dolphins in the harbor.

The Mighty Echoes

The Echoes went on to appear on many TV shows including “Frank's Place”, “Family Matters”, “Brooklyn Bridge”, “Murphy Brown” a stint as Tony Danza's high school singing group on "Who's The Boss" and recent appearances on “It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”.


Adam LaVorgna

Adam LaVorgna (born March 1, 1981) is an American actor, known for his role on the television series Brooklyn Bridge, and in the films Milk Money, Beautician and the Beast, and I'll Be Home for Christmas.

Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.

Bruklinas

Bruklinas means Brooklyn in Lithuanian and the mall is designed after this borough and New York City in general, including motifs of Brooklyn bridge in its exterior.

Donald Roebling

He was the great-grandson of John A. Roebling, who began the design of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the grandson of Colonel Washington A. Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling, who together completed the design and supervised its construction.

Emily Barton

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.

Hicks Street Line

The Hicks Street Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running from the Ninth Avenue Depot at Greenwood Cemetery to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Loutrel Briggs

His first major commission was in 1929 for Mrs. Washington Roebling, widow of the engineer who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Paul Boyton

In 1885, Boyton was involved in the fatal leap from Brooklyn Bridge of Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith.