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American National Biography
John Augustus Roebling
Engineer and bridge-builderIn constructing a bridge over the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh (1857-1860), Roebling employed a new method of spinning the cable on the site, using traveling sheaves that moved on temporary cables over the support towers from one anchor to the other.