began on the brooklyn bridge, at that time the largest suspension bridge in the world engineer joan roebling. proposed an innovative project. steel bridge 1825 m long on support towers 80 m high and on heavy-duty cables, roebling did not live to see the start of construction, his son replaced him to install the towers to a depth of 25 m lowered construction of caissons with compressed air due to pressure drops in diggers, decompression sickness began headaches convulsions and paralysis died from this and the youngest child, then the construction was headed by his wife emily she mastered higher mathematics and sopromat and became the first woman field engineer in the world the bridge was opened in 1883 panic swayed from windmills a crush killed 12 people to prove the reliability of the structure elephants from the city circus were led across the bridge the press called the brooklyn bridge a new wonder of the world. vladimir mayakovsky visited new york she dedicated poems to him, they contain such lines. here is this steel mile alive. in it, my visions were a struggle for designs instead of st