This close up is just a tiny section of the Golden Gate Bridge, painted "International Orange" and completed in 1937. Using a technique in which he banded steel wires together in spools and carried them across on spinning wheels, what famed bridge master was hired to run the suspension cables?

Based in New Jersey, John A. Roebling’s Sons Company was hired to handle the build of the suspension cables, based on their legendary work on the Brooklyn Bridge. They had a year to complete the task, but actually finished in just over six months, All told, they spun over 25,000 wires into each 7,650-foot cable.

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