WOMEN IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 👷♀️
Emily Warren Roebling
The woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge
It was not customary for a woman to accompany a man to a construction
site in the late 19th century. Petticoats tended to get in the way of
physical work.
But when Washington A. Roebling, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn
Bridge, fell ill, it was his wife,
Emily Warren Roebling, who stepped in —
managing, liaising and politicking between city officials, workers, and
her husband’s bedside to see the world’s first steel-wire suspension
bridge to completion.
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