If you look, you’ll see numerous echoes of the Golden Age of Invention’s great world’s fairs in the first several projects in this book. Consider Squire Whipple’s iron truss bridges described in Chapter 3. To a civil engineer, the simple trusses in the original 1840-era Whipple bridges are the close cousins of the artistic steel lattices used in the Eiffel Tower, which was built as the entrance to the 1889 Paris Expo (Exposition Universelle de 1889) grounds.
At the 1939 New York World’s Fair, RCA showed the world its latest and greatest technology by inviting the public into its huge exhibition hall. The hall, ...
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