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.
âFirst known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge it was commonly referred to as the Brooklyn Bridge and this became its formal name in 1915. One of the most instantly recognisable images of New York City it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.