I found this Golden Gate Bridge video more interesting than I thought it would be, because of the Trenton - New Jersey connection. You see a lot of Hungarian immigrants were wire workers in Trenton, and worked for the company that made the wire - those long thick cords of them - for suspension bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened for traffic in May of 1937. THE ROEBLING wire manufacturing company of Trenton - New Jersey, was essential to the building of the bridge. Joseph B. Stauss was the engineer whose life mission it was to build a suspension bridge over the dangerous churning waters of the San Francisco Bay, but he didn't last to project's end.
2004 WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS VIDEO... THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE : A Wonder of the Modern World"
I also found the Golden Gate Bridge project interesting because the bridge was build during the Great Depression and kept a lot of men working though this was very dangerous work. Typically on every bridge project some workers fell top their death. For the Golden Gate lives were saved due to a safety net that was designed to catch the falls.
The net was an expensive but worthy innovation. It might have given the workers more confidence so they could work faster but then a heavy piece of equipment fell into the net which didn't hold and took workers with it.
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