How Building One Bridge Destroyed the Roebling Family

A man who moves like he is eighty stands at a window with a telescope, watching other people build the bridge that is destroying his family. He is its chief engineer, and he has not set foot on the site in years. His wife crosses the yard below, carrying his orders to the men. This documentary tells the story of the Roeblings and the fourteen-year ordeal of building the Brooklyn Bridge. We follow the father who died before it began, the son crippled by the bends in the pressurized caissons sunk beneath the river, and Emily Warren Roebling, who taught herself higher engineering and effectively ran the project for a decade while history nearly erased her. We follow the fire in the caisson, the wire fraud hidden inside the cables, the workers who died, and the triumph that still stands. It is a story about the human cost buried inside the monuments we cross without a thought. Bygone Era tells the true stories history left out. New documentary every week. If you like the human cost behind the monuments we take for granted, consider subscribing. #History #Engineering #Documentary