Silent Builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge

by Marilyn E. Weigold

When 21-year-old Emily Warren married Union Army engineer Washington Roebling, she had no idea that she would become the "silent builder" of a wonder of the modern world. But when injury and illness killed her father-in-law and sidelined her husband, she boldly stepped into the breach and pushed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge to its triumphant completion in 1883. Her accomplishments in a field dominated by men have inspired young women ever since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1790626609
• ISBN13: 9781790626601
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"