Article October 9, 1902 Issue

The New East River Bridge

The following sketch of one of the greatest marvels of modern engineering skill, is taken from the columns of the Denver Republican and The Scientific American

Never in the history of bridge building have giant cables been hung so swiftly as they were on New York's new suspension bridge over the East River. Those four cables contain 7,796 wires, each three thousand feet long, making 4,429 miles of wire. The seven months occupied in the work is exactly three times as fast as any similar work has ever been accomplished.

No serious accident, not a single interruption of the vast traffic of the roaring strait that is called East River, not a sound that could be heard, has marked the work. Yet those black atoms, looking more like insects than men from below, threw forty-five hundred tons of cable through the air in that time.

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