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Born June 12, 1806 • Mühlhausen • Germany
Died July 22, 1869 (aged 63) • New York City • New York
Notable Family Members son Washington Augustus Roebling

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John A. Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Roebling, Emily Warren
Emily Warren Roebling
American socialite, builder, and businesswoman
Engineer Gustav Lindenthal (second from right) and his chief assistant, Othmar Ammann (second from left), posing upon the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1916.
Othmar Herman Ammann
American engineer
Washington Augustus Roebling, 1870
Washington Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Albert Fink
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Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Sir John Brown
British manufacturer
Ray Eames
American designer
J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
Charles Eames
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator