MANUSCRIPTS:

DISSERTATIONS, THESES and OTHER SCHOLARLY WORKS:

Bartus, Mary Raimonde, Sister, "John Augustus Roebling, Inventor and Bridge Builder", Master's Thesis, Fordham University, 1957.

Beer, Donald A.E., "Engines of Prosperity: America's Investment History 1800-1978", unpublished, 1988.

Ford, Bacon & Davis, Incorporated, Engineers, New York, "Report, Business and Sales Operations, John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Trenton, N.J., October 30, 1939, Volume 1.", unpublished.

Moore, Martha, "Our Town: Company Paternalism and Community Participation in Roebling", New Jersey, unpublished, 1982.

Moses, Kingsley, "Profitable Philanthropy Of the Vision of John A. Roebling: Its Inception, Its Fulfillment, and Its Ultimate Success as a Producer of Wealth and Happiness to Laborer and Capitalist", Town Development, Vol. II, 1914.

Roebling Collection (Personal correspondence, drawings, notebooks, account books, reports, photographs, etc.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

Roebling, Washington A., "Biography of John A. Roebling": unpublished .Letters of John A. Roebling to Ferdinand Baehr, December 13, 1831 and January 14, 1832.

Starr, Dennis, "The Nature and Uses of Political and Social Power in Trenton, N.J., 1890-1917", PhD. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1979.

PRINTED MATERIALS: Official

"In Memoriam -- John A. Roebling" (Sermon preached by J.C. Brown, Sunday, August 8th, 1896), Trenton, N.J.: 1896.

An Act to Incorporate the New York Bridge Co., Chapter 399, Vol. 1, Laws of 1867, New York.

Barnes, Alfred C.: The New York and Brooklvn Suspension Bridge, Brooklyn, Frederick Loeser & Co., 1883.

Farrington, E. F.: A Full and Complete Descriotion of the Cincinnati and Covington Suspension Bridge with Dimensions and Details of Construction, Cincinnati, J. P. Lindsay & Co., Printer, 1867.

Farrington, E. F.: History of the Building of the Great Bridge, (Enlarged and Revised), New York, Mooney & Co., 1881.

Hewitt, Abram S.: Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883, New York, John Polhemus, Printer & Mfg. Stationer, 1883.

In Memoriam John L. Roebling, 1869.

John A. Roebling, An Account at the Ceremonies at the Unveiling of a Monument to his Memory, Trenton, N.J., Roebling Press, 1908.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Business Papers (Annual Reports, Minutes of Board of Directors Meetings, Trade Catalogs, etc.), Roebling Collection, Rutgers University.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Price List of Wire Rope and Wire Rope Fastenings: Iron. Copper. Brass and Steel Wire: Galvanized Telegraph Wire. and Hard Copper Telephone Wire, with descriptive notes on Cableways, Tramwavs. Suspension Bridges. Transmission of Power by Wire Rope, Inclined Planes. Wire Rope Haulages, Trenton: 1903.

Personal interview of Sister Mary Raimonde with Charles Roebling Tyson, October 12. 1956.

Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers to the Directors of the New York Bridge Company, Brooklyn, The Standard Press, 1869.

Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Cincinnati and Covington Bridge Company for the Year Ending February 28, 1867, Trenton, Murphy & Bechtel, 1867.

Roebling Construction Company, The Roebling System of Fire-Proof Construction, New York, c. 1903.

Roebling, John A., Manufacture of Patent Wire Rope, Trenton, N.J., c. 1855, trade catalogue.

Roebling, John A.: "An Atlantic Telegraph," Journal of Commerce April 20, 1850.

Roebling, John A.: "Final Report on the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, May 1, 1855, Rochester, N. Y., Steam Press of Lee, Mann & Co., Daily American, 1855.

Roebling, John A.: "Memoirs of the Niagara Falls and International Suspension Bridge," Papers and Practical Illustrations of Public Works of Recent Construction both British and American, London, John Weal, 1856, pp. 1-39.

Roebling, John A.: "Passage of the First Locomotive over the Suspension Bridge over the Falls of Niagara," Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 29, 1855, p. 233.

Roebling, John A.: "Some Remarks on Suspension Bridges, and on the Comparative Merits of Cable and Chain Bridges," American Railroad Journal, Vol. 12, April 1, 1841, pp. 193-196.

Roebling, John A.: "The Cincinnati Bridge," Engineering, London, Vol. 4, 1867, p. 75.

Roebling, John A.: "The Great Central Railroad from Philadelphia to St. Louis," American Railroad Journal, Special Edition, Vol. 20, 1847. cu. 122-125.

Roebling, John A.: "The Suspension Aqueduct on the Delaware and Hudson Canal," American Railroad Journal, Vol. 22, January 13, 1849, pp. 21-22.

Roebling, John A.: "The Wire Suspension Aqueduct over the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh," Journal of the Franklin Institute, Third Series, Vol. 10, 1845, pp. 306-309.

Roebling, John A.: "Wire Suspension Bridge over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh," American Railroad Journal, Vol. 19, June 13, 1846, pp. 376-377.

Roebling, John A.: Argument before the U. S. Commissioners on the East River Bridge in Answer to Certain Objections, Brooklyn, The Standard Press, 1869.

Roebling, John A.: Diary of My Journey to America in the Year 1831, (trans. by Edward Underwood), Trenton, Roebling Press, 1931.

Roebling, John A.: Letter to Abram S. Hewitt, published in Journal of Commerce, June 19, 1857 and April 14, 1860.

Roebling, John A.: Long and Short Span Railway Bridges, New York, D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1869.

Roebling, John A.: Report of the Civil Engineer to the President and Board of Directors of the Cincinnati and Covington Bridge Company, April 1, 1867.

Roebling, John A.: Report on the Condition of the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, 1860, Aug. 1, 1860, no. imprint.

Roebling, John A.: Report to the President and Directors of the New York Bridge Company on the Proposed East River Bridge, Brooklyn, The Daily Eagle Print? 1867.

Roebling, Washington A.: Earl, History of Saxonburg, Butler, Pa., Butler County Historical Society, 1924.

Steinman, David B.: Speech Delivered at the Dedication of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge as a National Monument, May 20, 1956.

Suspension Bridges--A Century of Progress, Trenton, John A. Roebling Sons Co., [n.d]

GENERAL WORKS:

Auener, Wilhelm: Johann August Robling, Muhlhausen, Thuringia- Druckerei, (Verlag der Altertumsvereins), 1931.

Friends of the Golden Gate Bridge, Roebling N.J. The Golden Gate Bridge, May 9, 1987.

Goldinger, Ralph, Historic Saxonburg and Its Neighbors, Apollo, Pa.: Closson Press, 1990.

Harrod, Kathryn, Master Bridge Builders: The Story of the Roeblings, New York: J. Messner, 1958.

McCartney, Clarence, Where the Rivers Meet: Striking Personalities in the History of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Gibson Press, c. 1846.

McCulloch, David, The Great Bridge, New York: Simon 8_ Shuster, 1972.

Mumford, John Kimberly, Outspinning The Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope, New York, Robert L. Stillson Co., 1921.

Neumann, Henry: The Builders of the Bridge--An Important American Biography, An Address before the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, November 18, 1945.

Nevins, Allan, Abram S. Hewitt. With Some Account of Peter Cooper, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.

Roebling, John A., Diary of My Journey from Mulhausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States and North America in the year 1831, Trenton: Roebling Press, 1931.

Roebling, Washington A., Early History of Saxonburg, Trenton: 1924.

Roebling, Washington, A., "In Memoriam to Charles Roebling", 1918, unpublished.

Sayenga, Donald, Ellet & Roebling, York, Pa.; The American Canal and Transportation Center, 1983.

Schuyler, Hamilton, The Roeblings: A Century of Engineers. Bridge Builders. and Industrialists, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1931.

Steinman, David, Builders of the Bridge, New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1945.

Stevens, Harry R.: The Ohio Bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Ruter Press 1939.

Stewart, Elizabeth C., ea., Guide to the Roebling Collections at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rutgers University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., 1983.

The Roebling Story, Trenton, Roebling Press, [n.d.]

Tractenberg, Alan, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Venturi, R., Brown, D.S., and Izenour. R., Learning From Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1972.

Vogel, Robert M., Building Brooklyn Bridge: The Design and Construction, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1983.

Vogel, Robert M., Roebling's Delaware & Hudson Aqueducts, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971.

Weigold, Marilyn E., Silent Builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge, Port Washington, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1984.

Zink, Clifford W., "South Ward Survey, Trenton, N.J.", 1989.

Zink, Clifford W., "The Roebling 80-Ton Wire Rope Machine: The 93rd National Mechanical Engineering Landmark", Trenton: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1989.

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS:

"At Century Mark, Only Repairs," Engineering News-Record, May 24, 1956, p. 27.

"Industrial Village on Sound Basis", Iron Age, Vol., 113, January 3, 1924.

"John A. Roebling's Sons Company's Vast Wire Plant Thrown Open to the New York Electrical Society: See Hudson River Bridge Cables Made and Tested", Muller, Edwin: "The Epic Human Story of Brooklyn Bridge," The Reader's Digest, Jan. 1948, pp. 5-10.

"Open Hearths Closed", Sunday Times Advertiser, 9/26/65.

"Roebling Plant Still Reaches Out", Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser, May 20, 1900, p. 1; HAER Survey, 1987.

"Roebling Plant Suffers $300,000 Loss By Fire", Trenton Evening Times, Feb. 5, 1908.Schuyler, P. K.: "Lackawaxen Suspension Bridge Rebuilt for Present Use," Engineering and Contracting, Vol. 60, 1898, p. 421.

"The Industrial Village at Roebling, N.J.", Iron Age, Vol. 82, August 6, 1908.

Bahke, E., "150 Years of Wire Pope Research", in Wire, vol. 55, no. 4, Jul Aug, 1985, pgs. 148 152r

Bentley, J. C.: "Roebling, Master Bridge Builder," Manufacturers' Record, 100, Oct. 1, 1931, pp. 18-20.

Bullock! F.W., "Story of Wire", in Wire and Wire Products, Vol. 10, nos. 2,3,4,5, 1935.

Calvert, Monte, The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910; Baltimore, 1967. CF&I Blast

Cummings, Dr. Hubertus M., "Roebling and the Public Works of Pennsylvania" in Proceedings of the Canal History and Technology Symposium, Vol. III, March 31, 1984, Easton Pennsylvania: The Center for Canal History and Technology, 1984.

Czepiel, Robert, "Roebling Steel, CF&I and the Shutdown of 1974", unpublished.

Engineering News, May 26, 1883. (Portrait of John A. Roebling.)

Federal Writer's Project, Stories of New Jersey: Its Significant Places, People and Activities. New York, M. Barrows and Co., 197.8.

Harvill, Eleanor: "Business Born on a Hill," Steelways, November, 1945, p. 28.

Hyman, Stanley Edgar: "This Alluring Roadway," New Yorker, May 17, 1952, Pp. 39-84.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Blue Center, 1925-1930.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Roebling Magazine, 1946-1953.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Roebling Record.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Roebling War Worker.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, The Roebling Story, c. 1950.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Wire Engineering, 1930-1933.

N.J. Network, "Steelmakers", 1974.

Neuman, Henry, The builders of the bridge. an important American biography. n.p., 1945. ( Review of Steinman's The builders of the bridge).

New York Herald, April 22, 1906.

Roebling Magazine, Trenton, Roebling Corporation, April-May, 1949; No. 2, Vol. 5, 1951.

Scientific American Supplement., July 14, 1883. (Portrait of John A. Roebling)

Slocum, Stephen E.: "Spider Webs of Steel," The Mentor, Ohio, Crowell Publishing Co-, May, 1925, pp. 36-50.

Sunday Times Advertiser, May 21, 1899.

Sunday Times Advertiser, Jan. 11, 1953.

Telegraph and Telephone Age, May 16, 1929.

Time Magazine, May 25, 1987.

Trenton Evening Times, September 9, 1941, John A. Roebling's Sons Company 100th Anniversary Supplement.

Trenton State Gazette, August 21, 1848.

Trenton State Gazette, November 13, 1840.

Weed, Merrill: "A Century of the Wheeling Bridge," The Ohio Engineer, Vol. 14, July, 1956, pp. 28-29.

Wickersham, Col. S. M.: "Monongahela Suspension Bridge," Scientific American Supplement, Vol. 15, 1883, p. 6201.

THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

An Act providing that the bridge in the course of construction over the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn, by the New York Bridge Company, shall be a public work of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and for the dissolution of said Company, and the completion and management of the said bridge by the said cities. Chapter 300. Passed May 14,1875.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the New York Bridge Company, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a bridge over the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to provide for the speedy construction of said bridge. Chapter 601. Passed June 5, 1874.

An Act to establish a bridge across the East River, between the cities of Brooklyn and New York, in the State of New York, a post road. Public, No. 53. Approved by Congress March 3,1869.

An Act to incorporate the New York Bridge Company, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a bridge over the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Chapter 399. Passed April 16,1867.

An Illustrated Description of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. (Pamphlet) Published by John A. Roebling's Sons, Trenton, no date.

Barnard, Charles, "The Brooklyn Bridge." St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1883.

Barnes, A. C., The New York and Brooklyn Bridge. (Pamphlet) Brooklyn, 1883.

Brooklyn Bridge: 1883 - 1933. Published by the City of New York Department of Plant and Structures, 1933.

Collingwood, Francis, A Few Facts about the Caissons of the East River Bridge. Paper read at the third annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, June 21, 1871; printed originally in ASCE Transactions; also Engineering (London), February 16 and 23,1872.

Conant, William C., "The Brooklyn Bridge." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, May 1883.

East River Bridge, Laws and Engineer's Reports, 1868 - 1884. Brooklyn. 1885. (This very rare volume contains all of the following, most of which were published separately during the time the bridge was being built. )

Farrington, E. F., Concise Description of the East River Bridge, with Full Details of the Construction. (Pamphlet) C. D. Wynkoop, New York, 1881. Republished in 1969 by Boro Book Store, Brooklyn.

First Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of The East River Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1870.

Further Notes on the Caissons of the East River Bridge. Paper read at the fourth annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, June 5 - 6, 1872; in Transactions; also Engineering (London). October 18 and 25 1872.

Green, S. W., A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge from its Conception in 1866 to its Completion in 1883, with Sketches of the Lives of J. A. Roebling, W. A. Roebling, and H. C. Murphy. (Pamphlet) New York, 1883.

Kingsley, William C., First Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the East River Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1870.

Martin, C. C., Report of the Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, June 1, 1884. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1884.

New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings, 1867 - 1884. Brooklyn, 1885. (This thick invaluable volume contains the only records kept of the meetings of the directors-later the trustees of the Bridge Company, the meetings of the Executive Committee, lists of the stockholders at various periods during the construction of the bridge, lists of real estate purchased, plus all other reports, letters, etc., emanating from the Bridge Company during the time from May 1867 to June 1884. )

Notes on the Masonry of the East River Bridge. Paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers, November 1,1876; in Transactions.

Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn, 1883.

Pneumatic Tower Foundations of the East River Suspension Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872.

Progress of Work at the East River Bridge. Paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers, June 17, 18,9; in Transactions.

Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers to the Directors of the New York Bridge Company. The Standard Press Print, Brooklyn, 1869.

Report of the Chief Engineer of the East River Bridge on Prices of Materials and Estimated Cost of the Structure. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, June 28,1872.

Report of- the Chief Engineer of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, January 1, 1877. Eagle Print, Brooklyn, 1877.

Report of the Chief Engineer of the New York Bridge Company, 1874. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1874.

Report of the Chief Engineer on the Strength of the Cables and Suspended Superstructure of the Bridge, Made to the Board of Trustees, January 9,1882.

Report of the Chief Engineer on the Tests of the Samples of Wire, 1876.

Report of the Chief Engineer to the Board of Directors of the New York Bridge Company, June 5, 1871. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1871.

Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Bridge Company, June 1, 1872. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872.

Report of the General Superintendent of the New York Bridge Company. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department' Brooklyn, 1872.

Report of the General Superintendent, Neu York Bridge Company. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1871.

Report of the Officers of the New York Bridge Company to the Board of Directors, February, 1875. Eagle Print, Brooklyn, 1875.

Reports of Assistant Engineers and Master Mechanic, 1875- 1876.

Roebling, John A., Report of John A. Roebling, C.E., to the President and Directors of the New York Bridge Company, on the Proposed East River Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1870.

Roebling, Washington A., Communication from Chief Engineer W. A. Roebling, In Regard to the Method of Steam Transit Over the East River Bridge. March 4,1878.

Schuyler, Montgomery, "The Bridge as a Monument." Harper's Weekly, May 24, 1883.

Smith, Andrew H., M.D., The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1873.

Specifications f or Corners, Facing and Archstone, of Granite, Required for the New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.

Specifications for Anchor Plates, New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 187S.

Specifications for Cut Face-stone and Backing, Limestone and Granite, Required for the New York Anchorage, East Rr er Bridge, 1875.

Specifications for Cut Face-stone, Backing and Archstone of Limestone, Required for the New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.

Specifications for Granite Cut Stone, Required for the Parapets at the roadway, Brooklyn and New York Towers, East River Brid_ge, 1876.

Specifications for Granite Face-stone and Archstone, Required for the New York Tower, East River Bridge, April, 1875.

Specifications for Iron Anchor Bars, New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, April, 1875.

Specifications for Saddles and Saddle-Plates for the Brooklyn and New York Towers, East River Bridge, 1874.

Specifications for Steel Cable Wire, for the East River Suspension Bridge-1876.

Specifications for Wire Ropes for the East River Bridge.

Testimony in the Miller Suit to Remove the East River Bridge. Albany, 1879.

The Foundations for the Brooklyn Anchorage of the East River Bridge. Paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers, June 10, 1874; in Transactions.

Third Annual Re port of the Chief Engineer, June 1, 1872. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872

Trachtenberg, Alan, Brooklyn Bridge; Fact and Symbol. (An excellent analysis of the bridge as a cultural symbol in America. ) Oxford University Press, New York, 1965.

JOHN A. and WASHINGTON A. ROEBLING

"Letters to Ferdinand Baehr, 1831." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, June 1935.

"The Great Central Railroad from Philadelphia to St. Louis.

American Railroad Journal, Special Edition, 1847.

Farrington, E. F., A Full and Complete Description of the Covington and Cincinnati Suspension Bridge with Dimensions and Details of Construction. Cincinnati, 1867.

Final Report of John A. Roebling, Civil Engineer, to the President and Directors of the Niagara Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls International Bridge Companies. Rochester, N. Y., 1855

John A. Roebling. An Account of the Ceremonies at the Unveiling of a Monument to His Memory; Address by H. Estabrook. Roebling Press, Trenton, 1908.

Long and Short Span Railway Bridges. (Includes an introduction by Washington Roebling.) D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1869.

Report to the President and Board of Directors of the Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company. Trenton, 1867.

Roebling, John A., Diary of My Journey from Muehlhausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States of North America in the Year 1831, trans. by Edward Underwood. Roebling Press, Trenton, 1931.

Roebling, Washington A., Early History of Saxonburg. Trenton, 1924.

Steinman, D. B., The Builders of the Bridge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1945. (The author was a famous bridgebuilder himself and was long considered the authority on John A. Roebling. His book, however, was based on superficial research and contains many inaccuracies.)

Vogel, Robert M., Roebling's Delaware and Hudson Canal Aqueducts. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 1971.