One of the most epic engineering feats in history - Alex Gendler

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  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 4 роки тому +2070

    History is full of so many extraordinary feats of engineering. It's nice that we get to see one of them like this.

    • @abhyudaysinghparmar6055
      @abhyudaysinghparmar6055 4 роки тому +7

      Study about kailash temple of India they sculpted a 100 feet three story giant temple out of a really giant rock from top to bottom 'no joints' in a spam of 135 years

    • @afroamir8668
      @afroamir8668 4 роки тому +3

      Andrew Burton just thinking about the civil engineering required to do this with how limited their technology was is actually quite mind boggling

    • @aidenpennington8513
      @aidenpennington8513 4 роки тому +2

      Andrew Burton you stole my icon D;

    • @cioarasorin5137
      @cioarasorin5137 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah, these engineers should keep it up.

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence8365 4 роки тому +2580

    Imagine being born when they started building the bridge, spending your childhood looking out a window at the bridge that never seems to be finished, but slowly progresses, until finally in your teens it's finished and you get all nostalgic.

    • @MasterGhostf
      @MasterGhostf 4 роки тому +163

      Happened to me. When I moved to my city, there was an extension on a bridge to make it wider, it slowly got built over the years, and we were losing hope that it was going to be finished. But, 8 years later and its finished, and that first time I drove over it, and there is a feeling of floating through the clouds. It made me happy.

    • @ACasualCustomer
      @ACasualCustomer 4 роки тому +57

      I saw the Brooklyn bridge being built, I remember passing through it on my horse Lala on my way to my aunt's house in Brooklyn when I was a 17 year old fella

    • @georgecawton5361
      @georgecawton5361 4 роки тому +47

      Press Kevin To Continue and how old are you now? Like more than 150 years old?

    • @smokeymcgee7585
      @smokeymcgee7585 4 роки тому +77

      Yeah this takes me back to when i was a 13 year old Egyptian boy watching the pyramids being built. It was a good time.

    • @Davanthall
      @Davanthall 4 роки тому +6

      I was born in 1990 and I live in Boston. You basically just described how I saw the Big Dig.

  • @squalltheonly
    @squalltheonly 4 роки тому +488

    It took them 14 years to build that bridge 200 years ago. But here in Miami they have been working on the 826 highway for the past 20 years and they still not done.

    • @albertoaguilar9773
      @albertoaguilar9773 4 роки тому +17

      @Simple Weirdo In my city they're "building" two extra lines for the city subway, 10 years they've on the making and I don't see them finishing it any soon.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl 3 роки тому +6

      Don't think city workers were unionized back then.

    • @ryanhopper2854
      @ryanhopper2854 3 роки тому +8

      @@albertoaguilar9773 I’m almost certain we live in the same place. Obviously you could be talking about somewhere else but are you talking about the DC area?

    • @philosopher1a
      @philosopher1a 3 роки тому +2

      Studies and unions

    • @yokootersmellfunky
      @yokootersmellfunky 2 роки тому +1

      you guys got some weird construction going. we were supposed to have a new amtrak thing by 2025 and we’re getting it later this year because they were so quick with the construction.

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence8365 4 роки тому +704

    The amount of research that must have gone into this, just for the animation alone. Like that last shot of New York growing up around the bridge, the animators would have to make sure the skyline matched the time frame, is phenomenal. Keep it up Ted Ed.

    • @maciek_k.cichon
      @maciek_k.cichon 4 роки тому +23

      Research like this is so much fun. For 19th century you have many source: newspapers, trade press (with drawings and pictures), memoirs. And the best part is, if you research one topic in different titles, you'll get many angles. Best kind of history!

    • @--Paws--
      @--Paws-- 4 роки тому +3

      I guess it depends on where you grew up to know about knowing somethings more than others; as a New Yorker many school kids almost had an assignment or project learning about certain landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge. Not altogether or maybe just one specifically yet it becomes ingrained in memory, as a landmark should.

    • @tommybro5313
      @tommybro5313 4 роки тому +2

      Ok...?

    • @thehorsesnamewasfriday8695
      @thehorsesnamewasfriday8695 4 роки тому +2

      Love ted Ed their production is amazing

    • @thehorsesnamewasfriday8695
      @thehorsesnamewasfriday8695 4 роки тому +1

      Wait whT

  • @cliffsousa4184
    @cliffsousa4184 4 роки тому +170

    A big salute to those workers who built this bridge. I can't even imagine the hardships faced by those men working on the sea bed under a cover of darkness and extreme heat with a permanent feeling of dread hanging above them.

    • @danielwininger1750
      @danielwininger1750 2 роки тому +5

      I heard that process went much longer than expected. They were digging through mud for bedrock, which was much lower than they had anticipated.

    • @nthgth
      @nthgth 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah that must have been hellish. Those men definitely deserved a beer after work! And their names on a plaque or something.

    • @albertoaguilar9773
      @albertoaguilar9773 2 роки тому +4

      Respect to the men who built America. For me, that's what makes America a great country, the hard working people who came.

  • @pretzelbomb6105
    @pretzelbomb6105 4 роки тому +632

    Fun Fact: The tower on the Manhattan side of the bridge doesn’t rest on bedrock, instead sitting on a bed of sand above it.
    The bends were getting so bad that workers were struggling to make any further progress so Washington Roebling researched the fossils found in the already excavated dirt and found that the sediment there didn’t move very much, so digging was stopped and the caisson was filled 27 feet short of the bedrock.
    To this day, thousands of cars, bikes, train passengers, and pedestrians cross the East River supported by sand.

    • @Walter_Mitty_ingame
      @Walter_Mitty_ingame 4 роки тому +12

      Very cool! Thank you!
      👍

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 4 роки тому +25

      A very brave decision, because otherwise the tower could've collapsed and he would've been held responsible

    • @dannyn6036
      @dannyn6036 4 роки тому +9

      Pretzelbomb that’s not a fun fact

    • @dannyn6036
      @dannyn6036 4 роки тому +2

      Crest Raizn ok boomer

    • @ThinhTran-lk1ms
      @ThinhTran-lk1ms 4 роки тому +24

      Civil engineer here: Sand is good, it’s clay that you need to worry about. It absorbs water to swell and releases water when applied load to cause settlement

  • @jinl1127
    @jinl1127 4 роки тому +332

    Fun fact : Emily Warren Roebling ( Washington Roebling's wife ) was also the first person to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge while holding a rooster a symbol of victory and good luck

  • @Sean-sh6om
    @Sean-sh6om 4 роки тому +1500

    Good thing we now have vaccines against tetanus

    • @AB-dc9te
      @AB-dc9te 4 роки тому +26

      Sean Serrano we just need one for corona as well

    • @thespaceace8164
      @thespaceace8164 4 роки тому +27

      @@AB-dc9te What we need is for people to actually take the ones we have for flu, measles, etc.

    • @Moo-fb2kb
      @Moo-fb2kb 4 роки тому +5

      @SANS______ The irony of attacking others for mis education & pseudo science, while you yourself spit made up false facts. Most anti vaccers are wealthy white males & uneducated poor men, not the middle class white women yall find any excuse to vilify. If you actually looked at the facts & statistics, rather than just parrot fallacies like the people you hypocritically criticise, youd realise that

    • @sirshrooma
      @sirshrooma 4 роки тому +40

      @@Moo-fb2kb There's not a census running a proven study on the population of non-vaccinators. So while I don't agree with SANS's statement, you have yet to cite a source just the same. So neither of you are very good at citing research, but quite adept at placing blame.

    • @marciaosullivan3200
      @marciaosullivan3200 4 роки тому +3

      @@Moo-fb2kb cite a source

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 4 роки тому +79

    The mere fact that this bridge still stands today signifies how marvelous it was made

  • @akshaychauhan4346
    @akshaychauhan4346 4 роки тому +269

    This bridge acted as the alan turing's machine in the history of bridges. Remarkable engineering.great work

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 4 роки тому +3

      No it didn't

    • @akshaychauhan4346
      @akshaychauhan4346 4 роки тому +5

      @@Alex-cw3rz it was a metaphor.

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 4 роки тому +10

      @@akshaychauhan4346 I know what a metaphor is, it is just completely incomparable, this bridge tried and discovered nothing new it was just going to be the biggest and when it was finished was not even the largest anyway, which was the only thing that was going for it.

    • @crayz707
      @crayz707 4 роки тому

      😂😂

    • @akshaychauhan4346
      @akshaychauhan4346 4 роки тому +3

      @@Alex-cw3rz My metaphor was directing towards the emotion of trying for the first like alan turing did.

  • @Housewarmin
    @Housewarmin 4 роки тому +193

    Talk about family Goals! My family just yells from one room to the other, and can never understand each other.

    • @Bas_Lightyear
      @Bas_Lightyear 3 роки тому +1

      Ha haa! Salah McCoy my good boy

    • @Chris-lz6ci
      @Chris-lz6ci 3 роки тому

      My stepdad used to beat my mom

  • @cartermiller853
    @cartermiller853 4 роки тому +20

    4:46
    The specters of the towers, big feels man. Hard to believe they’re gone

  • @JohnathenSweeney
    @JohnathenSweeney Рік тому +5

    Fun fact: John Roebling was the architect for the Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati/Covington and even used it as inspiration for the Brooklyn Bridge!

  • @gabrielcameraeacao6653
    @gabrielcameraeacao6653 4 роки тому +117

    4:47
    Everyone:*Flashbacks of 2001*

    • @sirshrooma
      @sirshrooma 4 роки тому +14

      @imoto san they didn't put 9/11, they showed a skyline pre 2001 and then one that was post 2001. They didn't depict a a damn plane crashing into it.

    • @foty8679
      @foty8679 4 роки тому +1

      @Kenneth Kuper Thats actually crazy. People born 2004 are now allowed to drink alcohol (here at least). Wow. I feel old now.

  • @kunstwunderkammer6163
    @kunstwunderkammer6163 4 роки тому +19

    I really love these historical figures, who also have great family members of friends who inherit the architects works and promises to complete them. Great feats are rarely achieved in a single generation.

  • @osse1n
    @osse1n 4 роки тому +181

    Then: engineers do everything from idea to execution
    Now: emails, rapports, meetings

    • @Tikki-Minaj
      @Tikki-Minaj 4 роки тому +1

      True man.

    • @mdimranhossen2223
      @mdimranhossen2223 3 роки тому

      সিভিল ইঞ্জিনিয়ার পড়ছি আমার জন্য আন্তরিকভাবে দোয়া করবেন যাতে আমি সারাবিশ্বে ফার্স্ট ক্লাস ফার্স্ট ক্লাস ফার্স্ট বিশ্বসেরা সিভিল ইঞ্জিনিয়ার হতে পারি বা হতে চাই ইনশাআল্লাহ অনেক চিরস্থায়ী ভাবে আশির্বাদ করবেন ইনশাআল্লাহ। আমৃত্যু এই মহাবিশ্বের ফার্স্ট ক্লাস ফার্স্ট আধ্যাত্তিক সিভিল ব্যারিষ্টার হতে চাই ইনশাআল্লাহto

    • @johndawson6057
      @johndawson6057 2 роки тому

      Just start your company dude

  • @germanjimenez5336
    @germanjimenez5336 4 роки тому +11

    Building these amazing structures requires ingenuity, passion, perseverance and funding. We can see a marvel of past years because someone dared to challenge time and succeeded.

  • @AtariiWave
    @AtariiWave 4 роки тому +10

    4:40 that part reminds me to the final scene of Gangs of New York

  • @Baxtexx
    @Baxtexx 4 роки тому +51

    This was very interesting, thank you.

  • @kryptonytz5343
    @kryptonytz5343 4 роки тому +2

    The dedication and hardwork of the Roebling family have been stayed on this day..

  • @dennynikaj
    @dennynikaj 3 роки тому +1

    As an Architect I am amazed by the Human mind, i have a lifelong fascination with the way we think, we divide things, create things, the way art is part of us, the way we build, and respect the buildings and builders.
    Thanks for the amazing content, i always watch your videos, they make my day and brain so much brighter.🇦🇱🇽🇰❤

  • @rap_tor2213
    @rap_tor2213 4 роки тому +8

    A big salute for those.. personals for their dedication 🙏💓

  • @KushagraSharmaTrackRecord
    @KushagraSharmaTrackRecord 4 роки тому +6

    4:47 the original World Trade Center! A deep, palpable melancholic feeling...the Brooklyn Bridge gelled so well with the towers in the backdrop!

  • @boris2997
    @boris2997 3 роки тому

    I have crossed that bridge and passed underneath it 100's of times in the past 30 years. Brooklyn bridge is a Icon

  • @theamericandream5917
    @theamericandream5917 2 роки тому +2

    Amazing human engineering. This family's life work to build the Brooklyn Bridge could be made into a thrilling movie. Most people have no idea what it took to build these bridges that we humans take for granted everyday just mindlessly driving over as if it's nothing. These bridges were built to last centuries.

  • @hdwnkt
    @hdwnkt 3 роки тому +1

    Oh man the science behind 2:55 is so impressive, imagine being a worker during that time working in those chambers

  • @ilikemathematics1590
    @ilikemathematics1590 4 роки тому +39

    4:47 the transition between the twin towers fading in then out was truly a tragedy

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 3 роки тому +1

      more like great attention to detail

  • @kallelellacevej2234
    @kallelellacevej2234 4 роки тому +16

    Best opening quote!😂

  • @tacosforlife5743
    @tacosforlife5743 4 роки тому +7

    Im so proud of the engineers and workers who gave their lives for this project i actually cried..

  • @sucharithan
    @sucharithan 4 роки тому

    I usually tell this lesson to my students as an example of perseverance and struggle to achieve one's dream. Now, I can show them animation too.
    Thanks much for the wonderful video ❤️

  • @tigresstia325
    @tigresstia325 4 роки тому +2

    Between the Brooklyn Bridge and London’s underground metro, it seems like back then we did so much with so little. Now I feel like we do so little with so much.

  • @Touristmodel
    @Touristmodel 4 роки тому +4

    Another piece of my knowledge!
    Thank you for all the videos!!!

  • @Strik.9
    @Strik.9 4 роки тому +2

    So glad I came across this channel. Your content is informative and inspiring.

  • @TheRobAndres
    @TheRobAndres 4 роки тому +11

    We still enjoy Roebling’s prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge in Cincinnati. It wasn’t exactly an unprecedented design. He’d already bridged the mighty Ohio River with the same conceptual design, if a bit shorter.

  • @muhammadadil5698
    @muhammadadil5698 4 роки тому

    What a family, so determinant and persistent!!!

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 4 роки тому +747

    Engineer and Anti-vaxxer come to a bridge
    Anti-vaxxer asks the engineer: Is it safe to cross the bridge?
    Engineer: It is 99.97% safe to cross that bridge.
    Anti-vaxxer: I'd rather swim.

    • @alanman2288
      @alanman2288 4 роки тому +13

      They might also just be scared of the tetanus.

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob 4 роки тому +36

      @@alanman2288 I'm not scared of tetanus...
      ya wanna know whyyy?

    • @supremoburritotorres3156
      @supremoburritotorres3156 4 роки тому

      bilendbabystrong.link/QPw6xjwAlHf

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 4 роки тому

      @@bobsemple7660 *lose

    • @mr.sarcastic4572
      @mr.sarcastic4572 4 роки тому

      Sebastian Elytron
      Lol I saw that in a thumbnail

  • @praguru13
    @praguru13 3 роки тому

    Pure respect for the ingenuity and shear perseverance 🙏🙏

  • @erictheepic5019
    @erictheepic5019 4 роки тому +4

    Another of John Roebling's bridges connects Pennsylvania and New York over the Delaware River. Originally, it acted as a aqueduct, but has since been retrofitted into a car and foot bridge. The company for whom the bridge was constructed established an office a short distance away from where the bridge was constructed. Today, that small, quaint house has been converted into an inn, and is run by my Aunt!

  • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
    @Inkyminkyzizwoz 4 роки тому

    The BBC did a series in the early 2000s of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World and this was one of them, with each episode reenacting the construction of one wonder

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee 4 роки тому +9

    Hi ted-ed
    Another great and interesting video..
    Thanks..🙏

  • @silentj624
    @silentj624 3 роки тому +17

    Human ingenuity is amazing. It's so sad that we're so cruel to each other.

  • @PianoCatProductions
    @PianoCatProductions 4 роки тому +11

    Bit sad that you didn’t mention how John Roebling built a practice model across the Ohio River to test his design across a smaller span.

  • @alihaidarshah1255
    @alihaidarshah1255 2 роки тому +1

    I have never seen this popular brigdge in real life but I have seen it getting destructed In so many movies I can't even remember the numebr

  • @kobfish2559
    @kobfish2559 4 роки тому +181

    All these bridges, but I still can't bridge the gap between me and my crush :(

  • @ChanwooPark-me1wc
    @ChanwooPark-me1wc 3 роки тому +3

    이 동영상을 보고 그 당시에 이렇게 커다란 다리를 짓는다는 것이 얼마나 힘든 일 이였는지 알게 되었습니다. 굉장히 흥미로운 영상이었고 이 영상을 보면서 다리를 짓는 과정에 대해서 더 알게 되었던 것 같습니다.

  • @matej.m.rejsek8537
    @matej.m.rejsek8537 3 роки тому +2

    I read David McCullough's, "The Great Bridge" last year and to my recollection the book never mentions the fact that the cable stays also work to transfer load from the the anchorages and the support cables, and onto the the support towers. Mostly they are discussed in terms of further constraining the roadway's movements in high wind conditions, reducing resonances etc. Thanks for the addt'l insight.

  • @jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953
    @jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953 4 роки тому +1

    this needs a movie.

  • @worldsfunniestvideosandbes3684

    Huh, didn’t know this about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  • @projjwalray-6341
    @projjwalray-6341 4 роки тому +67

    Next topic to look up: "Decompression Syndrome"

  • @ahmadrahimisudin8364
    @ahmadrahimisudin8364 4 роки тому +3

    Thank goodness for the Roeblings. Because of this bridge Ted Mosby could go and meet Robin Scherbatsky in Brooklyn to give the blue french horn.

  • @tipirabbit
    @tipirabbit 4 роки тому +4

    The epitaph at the head of the bridge commemorates only the two men John and Washington Roebling. I hope that one day they will look back at history and realize that without Emily steering the construction and the family, the bridge wouldn't have been completed. Emily Roebling's name deserves a place on that epitaph. She is an incredible female figure.

  • @CDexie
    @CDexie 4 роки тому +6

    Don't forget those who died building this so they could feed their families. Don't dismiss them, don't blindfold yourself to those unjust deaths. Feel it deep, and marvel at *their* work.

  • @mjstory1976
    @mjstory1976 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome and informative video as always

  • @redhead_bebs
    @redhead_bebs 4 роки тому +3

    Such an interesting history. I live close to a small town called Saxonburg, PA, so I know all about it. John Roebling and his brother founded it as a German farming town. 😅

  • @reezuuu
    @reezuuu 2 роки тому

    Your video is best to watch before sleep… that calm voice make my sleepy every time

  • @johndean4998
    @johndean4998 3 роки тому +1

    0:06 - "In the mid-19th century suspension bridges were collapsing all over Europe". Provide examples, please.

  • @notgonnahappen8074
    @notgonnahappen8074 4 роки тому +33

    How come TED-Ed has 10 million subscribers but only around 300k views on average?

    • @TroyzBleedles
      @TroyzBleedles 4 роки тому +4

      Anonymous UA-camr probs a lot of old accounts or People dont find the video interesting

    • @feero9680
      @feero9680 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah thats like 0.3% of its subs

    • @Re-ii4gb
      @Re-ii4gb 4 роки тому

      Feer O 3%

    • @farikkun1841
      @farikkun1841 4 роки тому

      the title aint specific??

    • @feero9680
      @feero9680 4 роки тому

      @@Re-ii4gb
      Oops sorry. Youre right. 3%

  • @darrellborland119
    @darrellborland119 2 роки тому

    Nice short synopsis. Thanks!😀

  • @labdhisharma5396
    @labdhisharma5396 4 роки тому +1

    Wow such a cool bridge the biggest and also the one which took 3 lives to complete!

  • @dylanjones5408
    @dylanjones5408 4 роки тому

    I could listen to Addison Anderson all day and never get tired of him

  • @youcefbayou5293
    @youcefbayou5293 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks for the history . Thanks for the Roblins

  • @er.shaanofficial3594
    @er.shaanofficial3594 3 роки тому

    Marvelous!
    Thank you for uploading this video @TED-Ed

  • @simranbansal9303
    @simranbansal9303 3 роки тому

    1. Suspension bridges were collapsing all across Europe. The cables frayed and snapped under the weight of their decks.
    2. So when a German-American engineer, John Roebling proposed the largest and the most expensive suspension bridge on NY's East River, everybody was understandably susceptical. In February 1867, the govt. approved this bridge.
    3. this bridge had something different than normal bridges. Roebling designed a hybrid bridge. He used large cables from cable bridges to be supported by large pillars anchored at each bank. But Roebling's model also drew from b
    cable stayed bridges. He suspended diagnol structures that ran directly to support the main pillar. This immensely improved the stability of the bridge.
    4. This was the largest bridge to be made of a similar plan. it was 1.5 times larger than them all. about 408 m.
    5 . Standard hemo rope would tear under the deck's 14800 tons, so he used metal wires to support his bridge.
    To support all this weight, the tower had to be 90m above the sea level. Making it the tallest structure in westerm hemisphere.
    He was surveying site in 1869, a boat crushed hhis foot and he dies of tetanus in a month. But his son, Washington was also an engineer, so he took upon his job and started working again.
    The next year, construction began again. The tower foundation were being laid.

  • @CH3RRYxB0MBx
    @CH3RRYxB0MBx 4 роки тому +4

    That intro quote tho 😂

  • @somethingthatexists4797
    @somethingthatexists4797 3 роки тому

    the animation is so cool in this one!!

  • @joeybader8342
    @joeybader8342 3 роки тому

    I wish we could all focus on this incredible side of humanity and create an amazing future together.

  • @MilciadesAndrion
    @MilciadesAndrion 3 роки тому

    This incredible project was completed thanks to the effort and heroism of many unknown heroes and despite fraud and work accidents.

  • @MrRufusRToyota
    @MrRufusRToyota 3 роки тому

    The technology of pneumatic caissons wasn’t untested or novel. It had been invented to build the recently completed Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River in St. Louis. The Eads Bridge was also was the first steel bridge. These technical advancements in St. Louis revolutionized bridge and building construction worldwide, including the soon-to-be constructed Brooklyn Bridge and Eiffel Tower.

  • @leovillads1677
    @leovillads1677 4 роки тому +4

    Love the artstyle :)

  • @carkid6764
    @carkid6764 4 роки тому +1

    Dude how does this guy know all of this cool stuff??!!?? I subed bc of his smartness!!!

  • @Rex_The_Mouse
    @Rex_The_Mouse 6 місяців тому +1

    "Fuhgeddaboudit"
    -Streetsign directed at motorists leaving Brooklyn
    WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING ME

  • @REzado63
    @REzado63 4 роки тому +1

    I love this story. You really need to see it on Modern Marvels though that go into a lot more details. Still a great job from Ted

  • @bradenperry1216
    @bradenperry1216 4 роки тому +18

    Before he built the Brooklyn bridge, he built the “Roebling Bridge” in Cincinnati as a proof of concept. It is smaller than the Brooklyn bridge and if it failed, it was only Cincinnati not New York 🤷‍♂️.

    • @dmm3124
      @dmm3124 4 роки тому +3

      The Roebling Bridge has been closed several due some of the stones falling off of the towers. On the tower on the Cincinnati side is a net wrapped around the tower to catch falling stones. So be on guard New York.

    • @DiviAugusti
      @DiviAugusti 3 роки тому

      There’s a wooden Roebling bridge on the NY/PA border somewhere too.

  • @padmanjalisrinivasan3636
    @padmanjalisrinivasan3636 4 роки тому +1

    Great video thank you Ted Ed

  • @cameleyez
    @cameleyez 4 роки тому +2

    Seems like this video should've been longer. It was just getting good when it ended.

  • @haritmehta3642
    @haritmehta3642 3 роки тому

    I had watched this video a few days before my English exam and the unseen comprehension was about Brooklyn Bridge

  • @crow2989
    @crow2989 Рік тому

    Such a crazy 19th century megastructure

  • @Alkalus
    @Alkalus 4 роки тому +36

    *London Bridge is falling down*

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob 4 роки тому +2

      You win

    • @Macrocompassion
      @Macrocompassion 4 роки тому

      It was rebuilt shortly after the second world war using for the first time pre-stressed concrete in its spans. Its pillars sink into the Thames river mud and every year have to be jacked up with more material being added.

  • @amehak1922
    @amehak1922 2 роки тому +1

    The designer also designed the bridge to handle 6x more weight than they ever expected it to, that's why it can still handle the weight of cars now.

  • @GyeonghunPyeon
    @GyeonghunPyeon 3 роки тому +1

    우리는 지금 21세기에 살고 있고 주변을 둘러보면 많은 높은 건물들이 있습니다. 하지만 19세기에도 이러한 건축물들을 짓는 것은 쉽지 않았을 것입니다. 한 사람의 인생을 소비하면서 지어진 브루클린 다리를 보며 건축가들의 희생에 대해서 공감할 수 있었던 좋은 영상이었습니다.

  • @MarkArandjus
    @MarkArandjus 4 роки тому +4

    2:50
    Whenever I see one of these insane engineering techniques I always think who is the craziest: the guy who thought it up, the guy who financed an approved it, or the guy who actually goes do it?

  • @rocky951
    @rocky951 2 роки тому +1

    Roebling from my hometown of saxonburg PA!

  • @JoziMr
    @JoziMr 4 роки тому +2

    This is a lesson on family unity.

  • @jeffallinson8089
    @jeffallinson8089 3 роки тому

    This was fascinating, thanks for a brilliant uplolad.

  • @jogb9515
    @jogb9515 3 роки тому +1

    Wouldn't the wooden casings rot over time? Great explanation of the construction.

  • @zatzu
    @zatzu 4 роки тому

    Currently a civil engineer student and feeling down coz of difficult subjects... This video fills me with determination

    • @nixonhoover2
      @nixonhoover2 4 роки тому

      Fills,not feels. With such grammar I can see why you're struggling.

    • @zatzu
      @zatzu 4 роки тому

      @@nixonhoover2 oh my bad

    • @nixonhoover2
      @nixonhoover2 4 роки тому

      @@zatzu No problem. Good luck on your studies.

    • @zatzu
      @zatzu 4 роки тому

      @@nixonhoover2 Thanks!

  • @0901강민재
    @0901강민재 4 роки тому

    역사적인 브루클린현수교 건축물에 대하여 배웠습니다. 역사에서 유명한 건축물은 참으로 대단한 것같습니다. 130년이 넘었지만 아직 잘 서있는 브루클린현수교의 건축방법이 흥미로웠습니다. 좋은 영상 감사합니다.

  • @clvsidy
    @clvsidy 4 роки тому +1

    Who’s watching during quarantine ?

  • @talhasajid1299
    @talhasajid1299 Рік тому

    amazing engineering

  • @josedacunhafilho
    @josedacunhafilho 3 роки тому

    Speaking of NY and speaking of bridges, how about a piece on Gustav Lindenthal?

  • @kushalkumargupta718
    @kushalkumargupta718 4 роки тому +9

    Thank god it is not 'Brooklyn bridge is falling down'😏

    • @brainiton8044
      @brainiton8044 4 роки тому +2

      If they had used those faulty wires then we would be reciting Brooklyn bridge is falling down

    • @someoneontheinternet1317
      @someoneontheinternet1317 4 роки тому +1

      I'd prefer Brooklyn Bridge Is Falling Down over London Bridge.

  • @Queen1001N
    @Queen1001N 3 місяці тому

    In 1884, doubts about the bridge’s strength still lingered. In order to prove the bridge’s strength, P. T. Barnum was allowed to march 21 elephants across the bridge, dispelling remaining doubts.

  • @tireswing
    @tireswing 4 роки тому

    I like how they went to the length to actually have the historically correct name "Fulton Ferry" on the boat. 00:20

  • @hellogoodbyeandallinbetween
    @hellogoodbyeandallinbetween 4 роки тому

    I just read about Emily role in the construction of the bridge in Bygone Badass Broads. Highly recommend it!

  • @masteryoda394
    @masteryoda394 4 роки тому

    This is video is probably more informative than 50 Ted talks combined.

  • @kyleredzinak5206
    @kyleredzinak5206 3 роки тому

    This is a magnificent video!

  • @phoenixsspark6150
    @phoenixsspark6150 4 роки тому +1

    I love your work!

  • @surakareem9009
    @surakareem9009 4 роки тому +5

    Me: I've always wondered how they build the Brooklyn bridge
    TedEd: Building the Brooklyn bridge
    Me: wtf I was just thinking about it *2 seconds of release* Now I can get A+ on my test
    Ty TedEd

  • @dragonlukasmapping805
    @dragonlukasmapping805 3 роки тому

    4:50 can we just appreciate that, they left Singer Building there in this video. It is really sad that they demolish it. :(

  • @OnyxFire408
    @OnyxFire408 4 роки тому +1

    Do the golden gate bridge next!