Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity
The Rise of Iron- and Steel-Framed Buildings
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How did iron and steel revolutionize building design? Find out in this trip back to late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe and America, where iron-framed structures-such as sheds at England's Chatham Dockyard, New York City's Equitable Life Insurance Building, and Chicago's First Leiter Building-would set the stage for modern skyscrapers.