Fortune:
Fortune magazine was originally created by Henry Robinson at the end of the great depression. This magazine was created for “wealthy and influential people” which is why it charged their readers an expensive yearly subscription fee of $10 per year at its conception. Featured in the January 1931 edition of the magazine is an article regarding the Roebling family and the steel wire cables they produced for both the Brooklyn and Hudson Bridges. The piece focuses on the history of the Roebling family with photographs and descriptions of their engineering feats. The Roebling business was originally started by John Augustus Roebling, an immigrant from Prussia who developed rope of twisted wires in 1841. In 1848, he moved his business from the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania to Trenton, New Jersey wherein he began producing his wire rope cables for projects like the Niagara Gorge and the Brooklyn Bridge. For more information on Roebling and his legacy, check out the Roebling Museum: http://roeblingmuseum.org/
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https://fortune.com/about-us/
http://roeblingmuseum.org/
