By the summer of 1850, various versions of a short skirt and trousers, or Turkish dress, were being worn by readers of the Water-Cure Journal as well as women patients at the nationâs health resorts. After wearing the style in private, some began wearing it in public.
Lesson Plans. 1. The Brooklyn Bridge, constructed between 1869-1883, is a symbol of late 19th-century innovation and progress. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire and the first to use pneumatic caissons.
As the stone towers were built on top of the caissons, the men beneath, dubbed sand hogs, kept digging ever deeper. Eventually they reached solid bedrock, the digging stopped, and the caissons were filled with concrete, thus becoming the foundation for the bridge. Today the Brooklyn caisson sits 44 feet below water.