1. The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. ... It was originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of theBrooklyn Daily Eagle,[7] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. ... Roebling conducted the entire construction from his apartment with a view of the work, designing and redesigning...
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