A day like this 125 years ago, the Brooklyn Bridge at NY was opened to the traffic.
photo: Brooklyn Bridge, 1896. By Geo. P. Hall & son
The history of this suspension bridge is the history of the family Roebling: John A. Roebling, that projected and died in the beginning of the works; his son Washington who took up again the project and got descompression illness because he worked into the pneumatic caissons; and Whasington’s wife, Emily Warren, who became one of the first female construction manager of the history supervising the works and passing on her husband’s orders.
Science, aesthetics, poetry and heroism. Those were essence of Brooklyn bridge, essence of real Civil Engineering.
Pues si que es bonito, salvo el puto día en que al cabrón del enano picaflor se le ocurrió ponernos su historia en un examen de C2
Seguro que no fue tan divertido como el año que aprobe yo E2, en el que Jurado puso el Firth of Forth como problema de trabajos virtuales