Women's day "Emily Roebling" By: David H.P.

 

On September 23, 1843, Emily Warren Roebling was born. It was the eighth of the couple from a middle-class upper class, Sylvanus Warren and Phoebe Lickley Warren's eight children. Emily received a good education and was always handicapped because to her brother Kemble Warren, who enrolled her at the Georgetown Visitation Convent school. There, she studied subjects like history, geography, and math while also taking classes that were often given to future wives.

During one of his visits to his brother Kemble, a commander of the American army, in 1864, he met Washington Roebling, a young engineer who had been working for Kemble throughout the American Civil War. Less than a year later, they opposed marriage. John Augustus Roebling, the father of Washington, was then in charge of engineering the bridge that would connect Brooklyn to Manhattan.

John asked the young couple to travel to Europe to get information on the most recent engineering techniques for using cement in the construction of the bridge. Washington and Emily returned to the United States with a lot of information and their one and only child. But, the sad news of John's passing arrived on American soil when they were playing soccer. At that point, Washington took over the project's leadership without knowing that he would soon have to depart it after overcoming the descompression syndrome.

John put his trust in his wife, who didn't cheat him, in the face of the threat of losing the project's direction. Emily took control of the project, started learning the fundamentals of construction, and adopted his voice while speaking with city officials and the workers on the bridge, with whom she had to engage in a never-ending discussion of issues directed by her husband. Therefore she became the first female field engineer.

Because of the Seora Roebling's involvement in the projects and her ability to speak up, many workers eventually came to believe that she was the project's director. For forty years, Emily regularly visited the bridge's construction site and carried out the orders that her sickly husband gave her from the left side. The dream of the Roeblings was a reality in 1883.

In his opening remarks, Congressman Abram Stevens Hewitt praised Emily for her tireless work, without which the bridge would not have been built. In his speech, Hewitt acknowledged Emily's merit as a woman whose access to a higher education was, at the time, being vigorously opposed by society.