In 1879, an Assembly Sub-Committee on Commerce and Navigation began an investigation into the Brooklyn Bridge. A seaman who had been hired to determine the height of the span, testified to the committee about the difficulties that ship masters would experience in bringing their ships under the bridge when it was completed. Another witness, Edward Wellman Serrell, a civil engineer, said that the calculations of the bridge's assumed strength were incorrect. [161] [162] The Supreme Court decided in 1883 that the Brooklyn Bridge was a lawful structure. [163] Opening [ edit ] Newspaper headline announcing the Brooklyn Bridge's opening

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