Title: The spider of Brooklyn Heights
Description: A biography of the civil engineer who, despite fourteen long years of problems, politics, and invalidism, carried out his father's design and dream to construct a suspension bridge across the East River connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Subjects: Civil engineers, Fiction
Places: Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.), United States
People: John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926)