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An IStructE Talk

I’m giving an in-person and online talk on March 7 for the UK Institution of Structural Engineers on the connections between the development of fire-resistant construction technology, New York social history, and the origins of skyscrapers. More information here: New York’s Skyscrapers: Tracing Origins and Technological Evolution.


Below, workers at the Met Life Tower in 1906.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s07404
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