The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and controversy. The main architect died before the bridge was even built, and several workers died in the process. Tools and techniques used to build the bridge — then thought to be a "wild experiment" — are commonly used today. The Brooklyn Bridge, one of New York City's famous landmarks, turned 140 this year, and its history has been wrought with death, disease, and controversy. During the bridge's construction, over a dozen people died, while countless others were bedridden with a then mysterious illness, including the bridge's architect Washington Roebling.

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Persons: Washington Roebling, John Augustus Roebling Organizations: Morning, American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington Locations: Brooklyn, New York, Manhattan