The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 31
ars. It is difficult to form an opinion as to how much higherthe big buildings of the future may rise, but it may besafely estimated that thirty- or even forty-story buildingsare to be expected within a score of years, and that it ismechanically possible to erect steel buildings a fifth of amile in… … BIG BUSINESS BUILDINGS. 25 ranging between ten and twenty-three stories, were begunin New York City during the year 1894, a year of generalfinancial depression. Some reference to the dimensions of the EiflPel Towerseems appropriate here for purposes of comparison, since itwas the first large iron…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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