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11 Men Died During The Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, Despite There Being A Safety Net Installed To Protect WorkersConstruction began on January 5, 1933, and the work seemed ill-fated from the start. The idea for a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait was proposed in 1872 by railroad mogul Charles Crocker.
The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations ... company of John Roebling and Sons oversaw the cable construction. Roebling had built many of the world's longest bridges ...
Operating in one of America's busiest ports, local shippers fretted that bridge construction would negatively affect their businesses. Golden Gate Ferries, owned by Southern Pacific, California's ...
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration didn’t violate administrative law procedures when it revised an ...
Historian Michael Beschloss reminds us that construction on San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Bridge began today in 1933, in the depths of the Depression. The Golden Gate Bridge took four years ...
Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.
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