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Emily Warren Roebling

1843 - 1903

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Emily Warren Roebling (September 23, 1843 – February 28, 1903) was an engineer known for her contributions over a period of more than 10 years to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease (a.k.a. decompression disease) and became bedridden. She served as a liaison and supervisor of construction through communicating between her husband and on-site personnel. Her husband was the chief engineer during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been designed by his late father, John A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Warren Roebling has received more than 734,227 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Emily Warren Roebling is the 187th most popular engineer (up from 213th in 2019), the 3,879th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,712th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 187 out of 389. Before her are Hugo Eckener, Alfred Neubauer, Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, Michele Besso, and Michel Chevalier. After her are Gene Kranz, Ivan Yarkovsky, Kelly Johnson, Genichi Taguchi, Jorge Chávez, and Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 54. Before her are Bernhard Förster, Christina Nilsson, Itō Sukeyuki, Kliment Timiryazev, Odoardo Beccari, and Fyodor Stravinsky. After her are Moritz Pasch, Saigō Jūdō, Johannes Schmidt, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Émile Levassor, and Frederick Abberline. Among people deceased in 1903, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 42. Before her are Béni Kállay, Alexander Bain, Luigi Cremona, Malwida von Meysenbug, Augusta Holmès, and Harriet Lane. After her are William Ernest Henley, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, Tang Jingsong, and Karl Gegenbaur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 3,879 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Wilkes (1798), David Robinson (1965), Sheryl Crow (1962), Winnaretta Singer (1865), Doug Savant (1964), and James Quinn (1906). After her are Lois Lowry (1937), Benjamin Libet (1916), Ron Rivest (1947), Olivia Rodrigo (2003), Mimsy Farmer (1945), and Greg Kinnear (1963).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 13. Before her are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922). After her are Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), Seymour Cray (1925), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Kenneth Nichols (1907).

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