The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 69
sted and, withthe sand and dirt, carted away. Until this greathole was completed everything was at a stand-still. To-day all this is changed. As soon as thesite for a sky-scraper has been cleared for amodern steel structure, the ground is quicklyfilled with powerful machinery which would not 54… … WALLING-IN. THE FLATIRON BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY. assembled, consists of powerful derricks, greatdrills, chutes, tall engines, odd-looking machinesfor mixing cement, and many curious steelframes to be used for building the odd chimney-like caissons, as we shall explain later on.Such groups of…
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