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Show THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW .foiin t (.i si rs ROEBLTNG In 1 S ;t 1 a man 20 year-- old n lined :.lohn August Hoebllng arrived in this (country with the intention of practicing practic-ing his profession of civil engineer and developing an Idea which he knew was destined to have a great future. That idea the use of wire rope Stamps the first American Hoebllng as .ne of the famous men who have seen tomorrow. Bv means of It he left many monuments to his memory and started Ihe constructing of suspension bridges. Thcfost famous of these is the ! Brooklyn Bridge, New York. I Roebllng's Idea was frowned upon during the early days of his career Hs tabllshed a plant in Pittsburg for the manufacture of wire rope. L.ater he moved It to Trenton j The first bridge suspended from wire 'cables was completed across the Allegheny Alle-gheny river at Pittsburg. This was ; followed by several suspended spans across the Delaware and Hudson canal. Un 1851, he began the construction of the great suspension bridge at Niagara Fall a engineers hook their heads and predicted Its failure, j He could see ahead even then to 11 greater spans, and In 18C7 he 'completed the bridge over tho hio river at Cincinnati, with a clear span of 1057 feet. It was this bridge that 'led up to the commencement of work on the Brooklyn bridge. The elder Hoebling was injured while working on this structure and uie.l of tetanus. It was finished by his json. but the vision he had has been j followed by tho builders of all the Igrcal suspension bridges in the world. 00 |