The caisson becomes part of the finished structure. Builders constructed the piers of the Brooklyn Bridge using caissons. Although the caissons were structurally safe, the difference in pressure ...

For deeper water, bridge construction needs to employ a different strategy, meaning the use of Caissons. A caisson is a hollow structure, typically a box or cylinder, vital to many bridges ...

During the building of James Eads' St. Louis Bridge, several of the construction workers digging out the riverbed from inside the caissons fell ill. An alarmed Eads shortened his men's working ...

The caisson rests on the bedrock and serves as ... and 40,000 tons of concrete. The St. Louis Bridge establishes James Eads as one of the most successful engineers of his time.