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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. Roebling. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emily Warren Roebling is the 207th most popular engineer (down from 187th in 2019), the 5,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,879th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 207 out of 389. Before her are Adolphe Alphand, Eugene Stoner, Arthur Morin, Evgeny Paton, Franz Grashof, and William Playfair. After her are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Michele Besso, Robert Maillart, Émile Levassor, Vladimir Petlyakov, and Michel Chevalier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 58. Before her are Friedrich Robert Helmert, Fyodor Stravinsky, Karl Michael Ziehrer, David Gill, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, and Kliment Timiryazev. After her are Émile Levassor, Ernest Mason Satow, Kristian Zahrtmann, Gaston Tissandier, Peter Rosegger, and Louis Diémer. Among people deceased in 1903, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 51. Before her are Konstantinos Paspatis, Harriet Lane, Robert Planquette, Apolinario Mabini, James Glaisher, and William Ernest Henley. After her are Ozaki Kōyō, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lina Sandell, Girolamo de Rada, and Gustav Radde.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 5,100 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Mueller (1944), Wayne Morris (1914), Jack Bender (1949), Miriam Hopkins (1902), Philip Bosco (1930), and Tommy Morrison (1969). After her are Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Clarence Gilyard (1955), Anthony McAuliffe (1898), Albert Tyler (1872), James R. Schlesinger (1929), and Belinda Carlisle (1958).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Emily Warren Roebling ranks 16. Before her are Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), J. Walter Christie (1865), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922). After her are Gene Kranz (1933), Seymour Cray (1925), Jon Postel (1943), Charles F. Brush (1849), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Ransom E. Olds (1864).

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