Brooklyn Bridge John Roebling Original Wire Rope Guage Calculator For Sale

Brooklyn Bridge John Roebling Original Wire Rope Guage Calculator
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Brooklyn Bridge John Roebling Original Wire Rope Guage Calculator:
$2500.00

John Roebling engineered and supervised the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. And he manufactured the wire rope cables that suspended it. I believe his cables were also used for the George Washington and Golden Gate bridges.I came across this artifact in 1958 when I got my first job as a junior engineering technician in a lower Manhattan office building. The desk to which I was assigned, previously occupied by a retiree, still had some items that were never cleaned out of it. This was one of them, along with some old out-of-date drafting instruments, and a copy of The Daily News and Brooklyn Eagle newspapers from 1957. I was told I could just throw them out. I kept this, only because I liked it, maybe just because of the way it slid back and forth. I never knew who John Roebling was - then or for many years thereafter. Quite a guy.To my memory, at least, it looked as old then as it does now, meaning it must go back a heck of a long time before \'58. Anyway, I haven\'t the slightest idea how old it is, whether it\'s worth a little or a lot, whether it has any real connection to the Brooklyn Bridge saga, or not. And it\'s not likely I\'ll be meeting with TV\'s \"Antiques Roadshow\" any time soon. Museum, anyone?


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