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The Woman Who Secretly Built the Brooklyn Bridge (While Hollywood Kept Blowing It Up)
Hollywood loves destroying the Brooklyn Bridge in movies like I Am Legend, but they missed the REAL explosive story: Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who actually built it while pretending her sick husband was in charge for 10 years.
🔥 What You'll Learn: • Why the Brooklyn Bridge is nearly indestructible (30,000 PSI strength!) • The deadly "Caisson Disease" that killed workers 80 feet underwater • How Emily secretly ran America's biggest construction project • Why she had to hide her role as chief engineer • The economic impact that transformed NYC forever
Timeline:
0:00 - Hollywood's Brooklyn Bridge obsession
2:15 - The bridge's incredible engineering specs
4:30 - Emily Warren's unlikely path to engineering
7:45 - The deadly caisson construction process
10:20 - Washington Roebling's tragic illness
12:30 - Emily takes secret control of the project
16:45 - Her historic first crossing with a victory rooster
18:30 - Emily's post-bridge achievements
This is the untold story of America's first female chief engineer - a woman who built an icon while society wasn't even looking.
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