UNSW Faculty of Engineering has the pleasure of presenting world-renowned structural engineer, Roma Agrawal for a lecture on Emily Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge. With the release of Roma's first book Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures, this is an exciting opportunity to listen to the story behind one of the world's iconic bridges and how Emily Roebling made her mark in a male-dominated industry.
In 1883 Emily Roebling's engineer husband Washington Roebling became sick while working on the bridge. While he was bedridden Emily took on the challenge of running the construction of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Through her own initiative, incredible resilience and unwavering tenacity, Emily delivered one of the most technologically challenging bridges of her time, in an era where women were expected to stay in the shadow of men. Hear the story of this incredible family who designed the longest bridge of its time, the first to use steel cables, in the most personally difficult circumstances to deliver an icon of New York.
The lecture will run for one hour, including a Q&A at the end.
