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The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in the city of New York, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, with a length of 1,834 meters and is located on the East River, connecting the districts (boroughs) Manhattan and Brooklyn .
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE SCHOOL: ESTADUAL DEMCRITO DE SOUSA
TEACHER: JOS ROSAMILTON DE LIMA GRADE: 2ND STUDENTS: GABRIEL SILVA
JOS IVANILDO LEANDRO MOREIRA RAIMUNDO FILHO BROOKLYN BRIDGE TENENTE
ANANIAS/RN 2013 The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in the city of New
York, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States,
with a length of 1,834 meters and is located on the East River,
connecting the districts (boroughs) Manhattan and Brooklyn . When
completed it was the largest suspension bridge in the world, and
the first to make use of cables. It was the first steel bridge
suspended from the world and its huge support towers were once the
tallest structures in the entire city of New York. THE Construction
began in 1869
THE Construction began in The Brooklyn Bridge was completed
fourteen years later and was opened for use on May 24, On the first
day a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed it. Its
main curve has 21,486 meters. The bridge cost $ 188 million to
build it and approximately 27 people died during the construction.
Plan of one tower for the Brooklyn Bridge, 1867 When completed, it
was the largest suspension bridge in the world - 50% larger than
the previous building - and she became a major bridge reference
tourists. Additionally, for several years the towers were the
largest sculptures in the United States. The style of architecture
is Gothic bridge. The bridge was designed by the architect John
Augustus Roebling in Trenton, New Jersey. Roebling and his company
built small suspension bridges, like the John A. Roebling
Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Waco Suspension
Bridge in Waca, Texas, these served with engineering prototypes for
the final design. When construction began, the foot Roebling
suffered a serious injury in an accident, and within a few weeks he
died of tetanus. When the bridge was opened, the wife of his son
Washington, Emily Warren Roebling, was the first person to cross;
Washington could not get out of your home due to depression that he
suffered at the time and watched the building through a telescope.
On March 1, 1908 the Lebanese Rasid Bazil opened fire on a car full
of Orthodox Jews, members of Lubavitch. Baz was charged with murder
and sentenced to 141 years in prison. At first the action was not
classified as a terrorist attack, but later, the FBI classified as
such. The access road to the bridge on the Manhattan side was named
Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp in honor of the victim. The
construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was detailed in the book The
Great Bridge ("The Great Bridge"), David McCullough, and a film by
Ken Burns. On March 21, 2006 were found in the area around the
bridge remnants of the Cold War, as a refuge containing medicines
and food to survive a nuclear attack. Curiosity: A few days after
his inauguration, to dispel a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was
unsafe, a circus made its advertising across the bridge with a
parade of 21 elephants. SOME NOTABLE EVENTS: FIRST FLIGHT UNDER THE
BRIDGE In 1919, Giorgio Pessi piloted what was then the world's
largest airplane, the Caproni Ca.5, under the bridge. 100TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
The centennial celebrations on May 24, 1983, saw a cavalcade of
cars crossing the bridge, led by President Ronald Reagan. A
flotilla of ships visited the harbor, parades were held, and in the
evening the sky over the bridge was illuminated by Grucci
Fireworks. The Brooklyn Museum exhibited a selection of the
original drawings made for the bridge's construction, some by
Washington Roebling himself.