The Deutsche Post honored Roebling's 200th birthday with a stamp
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John Augustus Roebling
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
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business · German-American engineer (1806–1869) · civil engineer · architect · engineer · businessperson · also John Augustus Roebling, John A. Roebling, Roebling
Born 12 June 1806 · Died 22 July 1869 · Q77237
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2006· 1 entry
2004· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004).
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1876· 1 entry
Seven years after Roebling's death
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1869· 3 entries
Died 1869-07-22.
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Of tetanus at the home of his son on Hicks Street, in Brooklyn Heights
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At Fulton Ferry, while he was standing at the edge of a dock, working on fixing the location where the bridge would be built, his foot was crushed by an arriving ferry
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1867· 1 entry
Roebling started design work on what is now called the Brooklyn Bridge, spanning the East River in New York
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1863· 1 entry
Building resumed on a bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati, which Roebling had started in 1856 and halted due to lack of financing
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1859· 1 entry
Roebling completed another suspension bridge at Pittsburgh over the Allegheny River
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1851· 1 entry
Was a railroad bridge connecting the New York Central and Great Western Railway of Ontario, Canada over the Niagara River
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1848· 1 entry
Roebling undertook the construction of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal
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1845· 1 entry
By building a suspension bridge over the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh
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1844· 1 entry
Roebling won a bid to replace the wooden canal aqueduct across the Allegheny River with the Allegheny Aqueduct
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1841· 1 entry
Roebling began producing wire rope at Saxonburg to use in suspension bridges and such projects as the portage railroad
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1840· 1 entry
Roebling wrote to suspension bridge designer Charles Ellet Jr
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1837· 1 entry
After the birth of his first child and the death of his brother Carl, Roebling returned to engineering for work
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1831· 2 entries
In Butler County with the intent to establish a German settlement, to be called Saxonburg
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Roebling left Prussia with a group of emigrants bound for the United States
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1829· 1 entry
Returned to his home to work out his final thesis and prepare for his second engineer examination
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1825· 1 entry
Roebling got a government job in the Arnsberg province and moved to Eslohe, where he worked for four years on designing and supervising construction of military roads
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1824· 2 entries
Passed his Surveyor's examination and returned home for a year
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Enrolled for two semesters at the Bauakademie in Berlin, where he studied architecture and engineering under Martin Friedrich Rabe (1765–1856), bridge construction and foundation construction under Johann Friedrich Di
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1806· 1 entry
Born 1806-06-12.
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