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A newspaper, the Lansing Republican, dated February 5, 1884, reprinted a story from the Grand Traverse Herald pointing out that the experiment to provide all-year service across the Straits by boat had failed, and that if a great east-west route were ever to be established through Michigan a bridge or tunnel would be required. The editor considered both as practicable; the only question in his mind was that of cost.

David Bernard Steinman: Born on 11 June 1886 in Khomsk, Brest, Belarus. Deceased on 21 August 1960 in New York, New York, USA. Associated with the following firms:Formerly:Founder(s): Robinson & Steinman; Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist & Birdsall; Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist & London.

A self-made man and one of America’s greatest engineers, James Buchanan Eads led a life inextricably intertwined with the nation’s most important waterway, the Mississippi River. He explored the river bottom in a diving bell of his own design; made a fortune salvaging wrecks; in the 1870s built the world's first steel bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis; then deepened the river at its mouth, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation. By the time of his death in 1887, Eads was widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential men of his day.

By 1881, he had established an engineering practice in Pittsburgh, where he built several bridges, including the Smithfield Street Bridge, a stunning example of the lenticular truss. Lindenthal also worked on a variety of railroad projects, including surveying and estimating for rail lines in Pennsylvania and the reconstruction of bridges on what is now the Erie Railroad. In 1885, officials with the Pennsylvania Railroad approached him with a project thtat, although he never got to build it, would fascinate him the rest of his life—a bridge across the Hudson River to link New York City with New Jersey.

Joseph Baermann Strauss: Born on 7 January 1870 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Deceased on 16 May 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Associated with the following firms: Formerly: Founder(s): Strauss Bascule Company, Ltd.
Biography:
1892: Graduates from the University of Cincinnati;
works for Ralph Modjeski in Chicago.
1902: Founds his own company.
1904: Company becomes Strauss Engineering Corp. with offices in Chicago and San Francisco.

Thomas Bouch died during the public inquest into the failure of the high girders of the Tay Bridge at his country retreat in Moffat, and is buried at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

He was the engineer to the Edinburgh and Northern Railway during which time he designed the train ferry crossing between Granton and Burntisland.

Afterwards he became a consulting engineer. As an engineer he had a reputation for being able to build lines very cheaply. He went on to design many short distance lines for companies which could not afford heavy engineering.

James Finley: Born 1762, Deceased 1828, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA. Participation in the following structures: builder, Jacob's Creek Bridge (1801).

Sir Benjamin Baker: Born on 31 March 1840 in Keyford, now part of Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Deceased on 19 May 1907 in Pangbourne, England, United Kingdom.
Education: Apprentice at the ironworks Price & Fox, Neath Abbey (South Wales)
1862 - 1898.
Works in John Fowler's office; directs the construction of the London underground, 1867. Refitting work on three Telford Bridges: Menai Straits Bridge, Buildwas Bridge, and the Severn River Bridge near Gloucester; Cooperation on the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1882 - 1890.
Designs the Firth of Forth Bridge with John Fowler; Asswan Dam on the Nile

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On June 12, 1806, John A. Roebling, civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was born in Muehlhausen, Prussia. The Brooklyn Bridge, Roebling's greatest achievement, spans the East River to connect Manhattan with Brooklyn. For nearly a decade after its completion, the bridge, with a main span of 1595 feet, was the longest suspension bridge in the world. Steel wire cable, invented and manufactured by Roebling, made the structure possible.

When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened you had to pay three cents to cross it until it was paid for. When they opened the bridge everybody went to see it..It took them 14 years to build the Brooklyn bridge.