Penn-Jersey Chapter ASSP Tour of the Roebling Museum

Our Vice President, Howard Spencer, has arranged a guided tour of the Roebling Museum for May 28th at 2:30 PM. There is a parking lot. Try to be there a few minutes early so we can gather and start the tour on time. Our guide will take us on a 50-minute walking tour, mostly on level ground and then we will have time to tour the Museum. There is a small entrance fee for attendees. If you register early, the chapter will be covering the cost of the first 15 chapter members (limited to Penn-Jersey chapter members only) so do not hesitate.

For long-time PNJ members, you may remember we did this museum years ago and heard a talk about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge using a scale model constructed by our presenter. I believe the model is still there. The museum has improved immensely since our last visit and offers a wealth of information about wire rope manufacturers, a topic often misunderstood by safety practitioners.

Read details below about the Museum:   https://www.roeblingmuseum.org/

Roebling Museum, 100 2nd Ave, Roebling, NJ, (609-499-7200) tells the story of the origins and growth of Roebling, NJ, a company town built by John A. Roebling’s Sons Company. Some of the most important technological achievements of the industrial age, such as big bridges, telegraphs and telephones, electrification, deep mines, big ships, elevators, and airplanes as well as everyday objects, were built in Roebling. The Roebling Museum building once served as the passage point for thousands of workers each day. Roebling Museum believes that the industrial development of the United States is best illustrated and understood through the experiences of the people who built our shared history.

At the core of the story we tell is the innovative engineering ideas developed by John A. Roebling, who is best known for designing the Brooklyn Bridge. His three sons, Washington, Ferdinand, and Charles, built their father’s company into the world’s leading producer of wire rope with four factories and nearly 8,000 employees at its peak. In 1904, when competition pushed them to start making their own steel, they bought farmland on the Delaware River and built the factory complex known as the Kinkora Works and the company town known as Roebling, NJ, for their workers.