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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Discovery Education
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Exposes the truths behind two of America's greatest roadside creations: the Brooklyn Bridge and Route 66. The program details the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and reveals why Route 66 constantly changes its path.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"On a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap. It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct. The woman's husband was the chief engineer, and he knew all about the dangerous new technique involved. The woman insisted she learn as well. When he fell ill mid-construction, her knowledge came in handy. She supervised every aspect of the project while...
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally--she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold, and her life transformed when Wash, the Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is injured on the job. Untrained...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1869, construction began on the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world. The massive bridge would link Brooklyn and Manhattan. Everyone was captivated by its progress. But when chief engineer Washington Roebling fell ill, the project seemed doomed to fail. Fortunately, Emily Warren Roebling stepped in, and thanks to her, the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883. Frieda Wishinsky's engaging text and Natalie Nelson's distinctive collage illustrations...
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Network
Publication Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A look at some of America's most notable monuments and landmarks.
"Each monument represents the utmost in engineering, design and vision. They all stand as mighty symbols of American ingenuity, courage and sacrifice. Find out how these famous structures came to be, who conceived of them, whose sweat built them, and who dismissed them as fantasy. Find out why the Washington Monument took 100 years from conception to execution, why skeptics thought...