The Engineer's Wife -

Tracey Enerson Wood

Sourcebooks Landmark

2020

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781492698135

When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling, her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War, a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Chief Engineer on his father's magnum opus, the Brooklyn Bridge, and their lives change forever.

In Brooklyn, the happy home they'd dreamed of warps around the bridge. Incapacitated from working in the high-pressure tanks at the bridge's foundations, Wash convinces Emily to be his messenger to the site. Even thought Emily has no formal education in math and science, she finds herself taking over the project. She throws herself into building the bridge but faces suspicion and disparagement at every turn as she supervises dangerous construction sites and argues for the safety of the bridge amongst Manhattan's male elite.