The Rise of Skyscrapers

Harper Young

Roddy

IHSS - A

4/26/22




The Rise of Skyscrapers

Cities in the late 1800s had become so populace that to maintain growth, the only way they could expand was by building taller buildings. Building up was complicated because nobody wanted to climb up 10 flights of stairs, as seen in the first skyscrapers like the Chicago's Home Insurance Building. The Home Insurance Building was completed in 1885 and is considered to be the world's first skyscraper. The Home Insurance Building was the start of a revolution to build taller. The Tacoma Building, also in Chicago, was inspired by the Home Insurance Building and was completed in 1899, being 13 stories tall (165 feet high). The Tacoma Building was also the first skyscraper to use rivets. That same year the Chamber of Commerce tower introduced interior light courts integrated into the structural design of the building. In 1990 The Rand McNally Building became the first self-sustaining steel bounded skyscraper. But the towers also sparked a problem that James Otis played a crucial role in changing. James Otis founded the Otis Elevator Company and created the first elevator. In 1889, the Otis Elevator Company installed its first elevator. The company is still around today and is a world leader in elevator technology. The skyscraper revolution was the most prominent in Chicago, with new york not too far behind. New York took a while to catch up with Chicago due to its slow approval to approval of new building techniques that skyscrapers required. New innovations were made for the towers Capsel pipelines, otherwise known as Pneumatic tubes, were a new technology that propelled cylindrical containers through networks of pipes that involved compressed air. The capsules were used to take mail or small packages to offices around the buildings.

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