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    The Brooklyn Bridge was considered a brilliant feat of 19th century engineering and was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel cables and the first to use explosives in dangerous underwater caissons. However, construction faced many problems, including the chief engineer John Roebling dying of tetanus before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over but later developed caisson's disease. Using a telescope from his sickbed, he dictated instructions to his wife Emily to continue overseeing construction. During this time, an explosion damaged one caisson and a fire damaged another, while a snapped cable also crashed into the river. Despite these challenges, construction continued at a feverish pace and was

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    The Brooklyn Bridge was considered a brilliant feat of 19th century engineering and was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel cables and the first to use explosives in dangerous underwater caissons. However, construction faced many problems, including the chief engineer John Roebling dying of tetanus before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over but later developed caisson's disease. Using a telescope from his sickbed, he dictated instructions to his wife Emily to continue overseeing construction. During this time, an explosion damaged one caisson and a fire damaged another, while a snapped cable also crashed into the river. Despite these challenges, construction continued at a feverish pace and was

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    The Brooklyn Bridge was considered a brilliant feat of 19th century engineering and was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel cables and the first to use explosives in dangerous underwater caissons. However, construction faced many problems, including the chief engineer John Roebling dying of tetanus before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over but later developed caisson's disease. Using a telescope from his sickbed, he dictated instructions to his wife Emily to continue overseeing construction. During this time, an explosion damaged one caisson and a fire damaged another, while a snapped cable also crashed into the river. Despite these challenges, construction continued at a feverish pace and was

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    Broklyn Bridge

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    The Brooklyn Bridge was considered a brilliant feat of 19th century engineering and was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel cables and the first to use explosives in dangerous underwater caissons. However, construction faced many problems, including the chief engineer John Roebling dying of tetanus before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over but later developed caisson's disease. Using a telescope from his sickbed, he dictated instructions to his wife Emily to continue overseeing construction. During this time, an explosion damaged one caisson and a fire damaged another, while a snapped cable also crashed into the river. Despite these challenges, construction continued at a feverish pace and was

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    Brooklyn Bridge
    Considered a brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn
    Bridge was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge
    to use steel for its cable wire. It was the first bridge to use explosives
    in a dangerous underwater device which 1. (to call) a
    caisson (a watertight, dry chamber in which people can work
    underwater.) At the time, it 2. (to build), the 3,460-foot
    Brooklyn Bridge was also crowned the longest suspension bridge in
    the world.

    But the Brooklyn Bridge was plagued with many


    problems. Before construction even began, the
    bridge's chief engineer, John A. Roebling,
    3,, (to die) from tetanus. The
    project was taken over and seen to its
    completion by his son, Washington Roebling.
    Three years later, Roebling 4. (to develop)
    a crippling illness called caisson's disease,
    known
    today as "the bends." Bedridden but determined to stay in charge,
    Roebling used a telescope to keep watch over the bridge's progress.
    He 5. (to dictate) instructions to his wife, Emily, who
    passed on his orders to the workers. During this time, an unexpected
    blast 6. (to wreck) one caisson, and a fire
    7. (to damage) another. In addition, a cable snapped
    from its anchorage and 8. (to crash) into the river.

    Despite these problems, construction 9. (to


    continue) at a feverish pace. By 1883, 14 years after it
    began, Roebling successfully 10. _________ (to guide)
    the completion of one of the most famous bridges in the
    world - without ever leaving his apartment.

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