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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 57, 16 October 1883, Page 3

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Apropos of the education of a woman and of the calling for which they are (suited, it t3 a remarkable fact that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge, of wfeieh we have heard co much a« one ot the greatest triumphs of engineering, owes its existence partly to the genius of a woman. Mrs Washington R<Bblin<r, the wife of the great engineer who was intrusted with the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Jjas been chief of the engineering staff «yen since her husband first fell ill. When he was disabled and could not \ proceed with his great work, Mrs Roebliog began to study engintering, and her success was such that in a j rfiort time she was able to take her j husband's place, and the enormous j structure which A roericans not incor- j rectly call "one ot th« most conspicuous marvels of the nineteenth contury' was completed under her direction. The faouor of being the first to drive across the new bridge was well earned by Mrs Rcebling and the peculiar share which she had taken in its construction was rightly held to justify a disregard of the old superstition which dooms to ill luck the structure over which a woman has been the first to cross.