ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) at his death was referred to by some journals as “The Dean of American Bridge Builders”. He was born in Bruun, Austria in 1850, and immigrated to the United States in 1874. He started his own consulting engineering firm in 1881. In 1888 he initiated the pursuit of building a major suspension bridge across the Hudson River connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, a pursuit which continued for the next 45 years. This paper examines the various schemes developed by Lindenthal, and the circumstances which prevented Lindenthal from achieving his lifelong dream of building a bridge across the Hudson River.
