{"id":4307,"date":"2025-10-20T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooklyn1.one\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:42:04","slug":"the-woman-who-saved-the-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brooklyn1.one\/en\/eternal\/the-woman-who-saved-the-brooklyn-bridge-4307","title":{"rendered":"The woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of the 19th century, it was not customary for a wife to accompany her husband to any construction site. The reason was not only gender inequality, but rather the fact that women’s skirts at that time were usually long and hindered not only physical work, but also made it difficult to move around. but rather in the fact that women’s skirts at that time were usually long and hindered not only physical work but also movement around the construction site, which, as we know, was never known for its cleanliness and order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when Washington A. Robling, who worked as chief engineer on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, fell ill, it was his wife who refused to let circumstances get in the way. Emily Warren Robling boldly intervened in the situation. She took the reins of management into her own hands, supervising the work, maintaining communication, and interacting politically with city officials and workers. At the same time, she did not forget to take care of her husband, watching the completion of the world’s first steel wire suspension bridge. What’s more, Emily was the first to cross the new bridge, carrying a rooster in her hands, as legend has it, for good luck. Read more at brooklyn1.one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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