Totally Amazing Facts About Stuff We ve Built

Totally Amazing Facts About Stuff We've Built , livre ebook

113

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English

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2017

Écrit par
Cari Meister

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Capstone Global Library

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2017

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

04 mai 2017

EAN13

9781474737456

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

22 Mo

Bridges, towers, castles and all sorts of iconic and bizarre structures are jam-packed into Totally Amazing Facts About Stuff We've Built. Eye-catching photos and more than 100 facts will send trivia fans and reluctant readers on a wild architecture tour around the world.

Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

04 mai 2017

EAN13

9781474737456

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

22 Mo

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Taj Mahal Construction: 1631–1653

Agra, India

The Taj Mahal is aBURIAL SITE. It honors Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s third wife.

About20,000 WORKERSand1,000 ELEPHANTSworked on its construction.

Itshuge central domereaches a height of73 metres(240 feet).

The white marble walls seem to CHANGECOLOURthroughout the day.

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Louvre Paris, France

Construction: 1200–2011

The Louvre is one ofthe largest museums in the world. It has about 35,000 permanent art pieces.

It was once a FORTRESS and a ROYAL HOME .

ItsFAMOUSPY RAMID ENTRANCEwas finished in 1989.

The pyramid is made up of almost . 800 glass panes

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The “Old” Oakland Construction: BayBridge 1933–1936

San Francisco, California, USA

When the bridge was completed, it was the longest bridge ever built.It was 14 kilometres (8.5 miles) long.

ABOUT151,591 TONNES OF STEELIN THE BRIDGE. ARE

Until 1962 cars went across the upper bridge deck.Trucks and trainswent along thelower deck.

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The “New” Oakland Construction: Bay Bridge 2002–2013

San Francisco, California, USA

The new Oakland Bay Bridge is theworld’s longest selfanchored suspension span bridge.

Workers placed steel pilings for the bridge’s base up et)below the water’s surface. to 91 metres (300 fe

Some of the bridge’s beamscan twist and moveduring an earthquake. The movement allows the bridge to stay stable.

100 million vehicles More than cross the bridge each year.

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