Editing John A. Roebling (section)

==Legacy==
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Roebling devised "an equilibrium strength approach, in which equilibrium is always satisfied but compatibility of deformations is not enforced."  This was essentially an approximation method similar to the force method: First, Roebling computed the dead and live loads, then divided the load between the [[Cable-stayed bridge|cables and the stays]]. Roebling added a large safety factor to the divided loads and then solved for the forces. This approach gave a sufficiently accurate analysis of the structure given the assumption that the structure was [[Ductility|sufficiently ductile]] to handle the resulting deformation (Buonopane, 2006).

Roebling's company John A Roebling's Sons Co. is credited with being the cable contractor for the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] in San Francisco, California, constructed from 1933 to 1937. The Golden Gate Bridge was and still is a technical engineering marvel that Roebling, posthumously, has his footprint on.

'''Kinkora Works''', the site of the Roebling Company factory complex in [[Roebling, New Jersey]] was opened as a museum in 2010.<ref name="RobMus">{{cite web |title=About Roebling Museum |url=https://www.roeblingmuseum.org/about |website=Roebling Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707005246/https://www.roeblingmuseum.org/about |archive-date=7 July 2024 |location=Roebling, New Jersey}}</ref> The museum tells the story of the Roebling family and the John A. Roebling's Sons Company.

===Projects===
[[File:D&H Canal Neversink Aqueduct abutment.jpg|thumb|250px|right|{{center|Remaining abutment of the D&H Neversink Aqueduct}}]]
[[File:USA - NJ - Mercer - Trenton - Stacy Park - Shaky Bridge 2.JPG|right|thumb|"The Shaky Bridge" near Trenton Water Filtration Plant on Route 29 {{Coord|40|13|23.29|N|74|46|48.38|W|alt:8.551145}}]] {{See also|New Jersey Register of Historic Places}}
* c.1800s "The Shaky Bridge" near the Trenton Water Filtration Plant at the Calhoun Street Bridge (spans approx. 20 feet [6 m]) demonstration project<ref>{{cite web|title=NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places |page=14 |url=http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/Mercer.pdf |publisher=New Jersey Historic Preservation Office |access-date=23 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516134942/http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/mercer.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2013 }}</ref>
* c.1800s "Demonstration Bridge" spans two buildings of the former [[John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Trenton N.J., Block 3|Roebling Plant, Trenton, NJ]]. Now the Mercer County Executive Building on 175 South Broad Street, Trenton, NJ. 
* 1844 [[Allegheny Aqueduct Bridge]] – [[Pittsburgh]]; 162 feet (49 m) spans; demolished 1861
* 1846 [[Smithfield Street Bridge]] – Pittsburgh; 188 feet (57 m) spans; replaced 1881–1883
* 1848 [[Lackawaxen Aqueduct]] – spanning the [[Lackawaxen River]] at [[Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania]]; two spans of 115 feet (35m) each, two 7-inch (18&nbsp;cm) cables; no longer extant
* 1849 [[Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct]] – spanning the [[Delaware River]] from Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania to [[Minisink Ford, New York]], four spans of 134 feet (41 m) each, two 8-inch (20&nbsp;cm) cables; converted to vehicular and pedestrian use, restored in 1965 and 1995
* 1850 [[High Falls Aqueduct]] – one span of 145 feet (44 m), two 8½-inch (22&nbsp;cm) cables<ref>[http://www.canalmuseum.org/ D & H Canal Museum]</ref>
* 1850 [[Neversink Aqueduct]] – spanning the [[Neversink River]]; one span of 170 feet (52m), two 9½-inch (24&nbsp;cm) cables
* 1854 [[Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge]] – spanning the [[Niagara River]] from [[Niagara Falls, New York]] to [[Niagara Falls, Canada]], 821 feet (250 m) span
* 1859 [[Sixth Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)#First bridge|Allegheny Bridge]] – Pittsburgh; 344-foot (105 m) spans
* 1866 [[John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge]] – spanning the [[Ohio River]] from [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] to [[Covington, Kentucky]]; 1,057 feet (322 m) long with a deck clearance of 100 feet (30 m)
* 1883 [[Brooklyn Bridge]] – spanning the [[East River]] from [[Manhattan]] to [[Brooklyn]] in New York City; 1,595 feet (486 m) span
* 1898 [[Ojuela Bridge]] (Puente de Ojuela)  – suspension bridge at the site of the [[Ojuela]] Goldmine, [[Durango|Durango, Mexico]]; span of 271.5 metres
* 1904 [[The Riegelsville Bridge]]- 577 feet (176 m) suspension bridge crossing the Delaware River at Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, connecting it with Riegelsville, New Jersey, United States -opened on April 18, 1904

=== Honors ===
* In 2006, the ''[[Deutsche Post]]'' honored Roebling's 200th birthday with a stamp.
* [[Mühlhausen]] named the "John-August-Roebling-Schule" after him.

=== In popular culture ===
* Roebling makes a brief appearance in the opening scene of the 2001 romantic comedy film ''[[Kate & Leopold]]'', portrayed by actor and dialect coach [[Andrew Jack (dialect coach)|Andrew Jack]]. He delivers Roebling's lines in a pronounced German accent.  This is an anachronism, as the scene takes place in [[1876]], seven years after Roebling's death.
* In the sixth-season ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]'' episode "The Tattler," it is revealed that Jake and Gina attended John Roebling High School.
* In the second season of [[The Gilded Age (TV series)]], an HBO drama, [[Emily Warren Roebling]] is depicted as having a larger role in the engineering of the Brooklyn Bridge than is publicly known. The fact that a woman engineered the bridge becomes an issue for the characters.