The Rise of Iron- and Steel-Framed Buildings

The Rise of Iron- and Steel-Framed Buildings

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E18: 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.