Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30 second summary.

Thank you. Thank you all for coming to celebrate the completion of my greatest achievement to date.

New York and Brooklyn are now connected by the completion of my greatest achievement to date.

New York and Brooklyn are now connected by the longest suspension bridge in the world.

The last 14 years have been fraught with challenges and there were times I thought I might not

ever come, but overcome I did by Jove and by myself

Actually maybe a little bit at it sometime but not much

It's my project from start to finish.

Gentlemen, I give you the East River Bridge.

And then... And that is not quite how things went down at all.

The end.

Let's talk about Emily Warren Robling. But first let's drop her into history.

In 1883, Louis Waterman saw a flaw in the ink pen design and began to invent a better

option, the fountain pen, which was patented the following year. The United States' very first vaudeville theater opened in Boston, Massachusetts.

The International Colonial and Export Exhibition, otherwise known as the Amsterdam World's Fair was held.

The first of over 2,500 Carnegie libraries throughout the world opened in

Andrew Carnegie's birthplace of Dunfermline, Scotland.

The very first male shoot was installed in the Elwood building in Rochester, New York,

and the very first run of the Explas Doyant, Orient Express, left Paris for Constantinople.

The first edition of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson was published,

Douglas Fairbank Senior. Rub Goldberg and Gabrielle Cocos-Shanell were all born.

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