Engineering News Record
Engineering News Record
Looking back over the magazine's history, ENR editors identified these
125 people for their outstanding contributions to the construction
industry since 1874. Their efforts, sigularly and collectively, helped
shape this nation and the world. Each pioneered in often uncharted
territory, developing new analytical tools, equipment, engineering or
architectural designs. Through their companies, they also invented
new means and methods for construction the built environment.
ENR History August 30, 1999
The Top 125 People are detailed in the August 30 1999 issue of ENR:
Landmak Project Managers
Emily W. Roebling (1843-1903)
Washington Roebling (1837-1926)
John Roebling designed the Brooklyn Bridge but his son and
daughter-in-law got it done in 1883. After John died in 1869,
Washington became chief engineer with modesty, physical courage
and his father's iron will. Emily took charge of the day-to-day
construction when her husband became incapacitated from on-the-job
injuries. Perhaps the first woman field engineer, she learned higher
mathematics, the calculation of catenary curves, strength of materials,
stress analysis, bridge specifications, and intricacies of cable construction.
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