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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

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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