[SamAdams76]

Brooklyn Bridge still stands as well. A magnificent bridge and I really should walk it again before the weather gets warm and all the tourists come out in force. I read the book on building the Brooklyn Bridge - those underwater caissons were a hassle! Then stringing those suspension cables. Dangerous work.

I saw the video of the Florida pedestrian bridge collapsing. On the left side, it looked like a man was on top of the bridge when it happened and for a split second, he was suspended in mid-air. Really eerie sight. I never did hear what his fate was. Did he survive?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

And the Brooklyn bridge was built in the 1880s. There were no Caterpillar cranes or even feasible transportation to transport the materials to the site then.

Just raw American ingenuity, know-how, and sacrifice.

[elcid1970]

Learned in grade school that the illness called the bends was discovered while building the Brooklyn Bridge. Decompression from coming up from those underwater caissons caused it.

Anyway, may it stand for another American century!

[Crossfeed]

A Great Read:

The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By David McCullough

[Rome2000]

Read a book on the Eads bridge in St Louis, and has a lot of other interesting info

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America