June 12

John Augustus Roebling was born on the 12th in 1806. He was an engineer, perhaps most famously associated with New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. While he did begin the design for the iconic bridge and developed the process for making the metal wire used in its construction that makes the bridge so beautiful, before completing the design he died. His son Washington Augustus Roebling did the remaining design work. The firm that built the bridge was Joseph A. Roebling Sons.