Super-sized ProjectsBeyond that, there are big new problems. Like how to erect an enormous stature, or stretch cables across a river half-a-mile wide. |
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Brooklyn Bridge This drawing illustrates the submerged, pressurized chamber needed by workers who prepare foundations for the stone towers that support the bridge, which rest on the riverbed. Waste is hauled up and dumped into barges, after which the tower itself rises stone by stone, using cranes which also rise, as the construction continues | |||||||||
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Statue of Liberty The magnificent statue is made of sheets of copper, formed to shape in France, shipped to America, and then riveted together. Visitors reach the viewing platform by climbing a spiral staircase rising up the center of the supporting structure. An elevator was added in the 1930s. | |||||||||
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Hydro Power, Minneapolis The great falls which power America's biggest industrial flour-milling complex keeps receding upstream ... until the Corps of Engineers is brought in to stabilize the situation | |||||||||
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Machine-made Lace Fantastically complicated designs are child's play for lace-making equipment, which is controlled by a series of cards with holes that manage the looms, and appear almost identical to the punch cards used by early IBM mainframe computers | |||||||||
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Knitting Machines The much smaller circular looms that produce tubular knitted fabrics are nearly as complicated, and widely used to produce socks and long underwear | |||||||||