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| 1111 Mckee Road |
| Oakdale, PA 15071 |
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| Classification: Associates Colleges |
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The Narrows' place in suspension bridge building - TheNewsTribune.com (subscription)
Born in 1806 in Mulhausen, Germany, Roebling was an engineering scholar at the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Berlin, where he excelled in hydraulics and bridge construction. His first glimpse of a suspension bridge, built over the Regnitz River in Bamburg, Germany, became the topic of his graduation thesis.