Just a note of Appreciation by Miriam Pia
There is a history to these amazing buildings, these modern giants, these skyscrapers. Whether it is the Spire or the new Trump Towers, as we move into the 21st Century we progress with technological advances.
What is sometimes fun, is to see how old fashioned ‘new fangled technology’ has helped us to get to where we are today. In the late 1880′s new methods of steel construction revolutionized the ability to create tall buildings which could be both safe and stable. This is how your high buildings in Atlanta got their start…just in time for post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Finally, I must share one more tid-bit: of course you have heard of blue prints: these are simply copies of the architect’s drafts with notes that can come in quite handy to the actual construction teams and planners. Well, it was Thomas Morgan, who after reading a Scientific American magazine article, took the plunge and brought this wild new technology to work in the city of Atlanta where he had a hand in erecting over 10 tall buildings downtown.
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