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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 631,278 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Emily Warren Roebling is the 215th most popular engineer (up from 234th in 2019), the 4,724th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,174th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 215 out of 323Before her are Franz Grashof, Paul Mauser, André Waterkeyn, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, and Ferdinand Mannlicher. After her are Benoît Fourneyron, Eugene Polley, Georgy Beriev, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Arkhip Lyulka, and Gioacchino Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 62Before her are David Gill, Adolf Mayer, Henri Regnault, Gaston Tissandier, Louis Duchesne, and Gertrude Jekyll. After her are Mark Antokolsky, Frank James, Paul Cambon, Georg von Rosen, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Ernest Mason Satow. Among people deceased in 1903, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 52Before her are Ozaki Kōyō, Karl Gegenbaur, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Harriet Lane, Tang Jingsong, and Lina Sandell. After her are Konstantinos Paspatis, Henri Alexis Brialmont, George Gissing, Girolamo de Rada, Gustav Radde, and Paul Du Chaillu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 4,724 out of 18,182Before her are David Paich (1954), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Jimi Jamison (1951), Jonathan Winters (1925), Layne Staley (1967), and Daniel Kirkwood (1814). After her are Edmund Muskie (1914), W. Averell Harriman (1891), Zakk Wylde (1967), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Gregg Henry (1952), and Marc Lawrence (1910).

Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 20Before her are Gene Kranz (1933), Jon Postel (1943), Seymour Cray (1925), Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), and Ed Heinemann (1908). After her are Eugene Polley (1915), Burt Rutan (1943), Aron Ralston (1975), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), and Frederick Terman (1900).