Engineering America - The Life and Times of John A. Roebling

Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: "Fitting One's Self for the New World"


• Part One: Novice (1806-1831)


• Chapter 1: In Napoleon's Shadow (1806-1824)


• Chapter 2: Berlin and the Culture of Revolution (1824-1825)


• Chapter 3: Westphalia: Building Roads, Designing Bridges (1825-1829)


• Chapter 4: Johann Etzler and the Mühlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831)


• Chapter 5: Across the Atlantic (1831)


• Part Two: Apprentice (1831-1847)


• Chapter 6: And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832)


• Chapter 7: Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837)


• Chapter 8: Internal Improvements (1838-1841)


• Chapter 9: Making Wire Rope and the Wire Rope Industry (1840-1848)


• Chapter 10: Private Life, Public Works (1844-1845)


• Chapter 11: Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Finishing the Allegheny, Spanning the Monongahela (1845-1846)


• Chapter 12: Setting the Future (1846-1847)


• Part Three: Master (1848-69)


• Chapter 13: Economies of Scale (1848-1852)


• Chapter 14: Crossing Niagara (1846-48)


• Chapter 15: Securing Niagara (1852-55)


• Chapter 16: The Kentucky, Ohio and Allegheny (1856-1860)


• Chapter 17: And the War Came (1861-1865)


• Chapter 18: Unfinished Business (1863-1869)


• Epilogue: "I am my own Judge"


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Richard Haw is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History and Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History.

Summary

Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.

Additional text

A remarkable work of primary source scholarship

Product details

• Authors: Richard Haw, Richard (Associate Professor of Interdiscipli Haw, Haw Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2020
• EAN: 9780190663902
• ISBN: 978-0-19-066390-2
• No. of pages: 648
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Civil engineering, surveying and building