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Today in Mighty Girl history, Emily Warren Roebling, the "woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge," was born in 1843. Early in its construction, Roebling's husband, the chief engineer in charge of the bridge’s construction, became bedridden due to decompression sickness. Emily Roebling stepped in to become the first female field engineer and supervised the bridge's construction for over ten years until its completion in 1883.
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