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TIL construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of pressurised caissons (a watertight retaining structure), resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by decompression sickness or caisson disease named after this design.
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Aren’t there a bunch of bodies in the structure of the bridge? Or is that just an urban legend?
The bends. Nearly killed the designer of the bridge too