The Brooklyn Bridge is an American icon, still in its glory after more than 140 years. The construction is as amazing today as it was back then, and in this course, we see the many pictures and diagrams showing how brave were the Roeblings - father, then son, and then wife - to even dare to undertake such a mammoth project. The story’s great; so's the construction. The photos show it.

Myles Standish, Ph.D. in astronomy from Yale, spent most of his career at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing accurate planetary positions to the spacecraft navigation team as well as to the world’s major almanac offices. He has spoken at professional meetings, astronomy departments, civic groups, and was a guest lecturer on the Queen Mary II. Asteroid “3420 Standish” was named in his honor.