The Rise Of Skyscrapers - Claire

 Claire Thacker 

Mr. Roddy 

IHSS

26 April 2022 

The Rise of Skyscrapers

The first skyscrapers were built in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. The first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, it finished construction in 1885. This skyscraper was 10 stories tall which is much smaller than our skyscraper now. Which can get to 100 stories or taller. The building originally reached 138 feet tall but was brought up to 180 feet because of extra stories added in 1891. However, this skyscraper was demolished in 1931 and replaced with an even bigger skyscraper, the Feild building which stands 45 stories tall. 

 
Chicago's Home Insurance Building. 
Chicago History Museum / Archive Photos / Getty Images

A skyscraper is a tall commercial building with a steel or iron framework. The Bessemer process is the inexpensive mass production of steel beams. Making the building of skyscrapers was possible. In 1855 the Bessemer decarbonization process was patented. The Bessemer decarbonization process is a process in which a blast of air is forced through the molten metal to burn out carbon and other impurities. The invention of the elevator played a big role in the ability to create taller buildings. The first elevator was created in 1853, by the OTIS elevator company by Elisha Graves Otis. Who introduced the first elevator at the crystal palace convention in New York that was safe for passengers. This had a huge impact on the skyscraper industry since it drastically reduce the time it took for people to travel between floors. 

Portrait of Henry Bessemer, British inventor. clu / Getty Images




Sources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-skyscrapers-became-possible-1991649#:~:text=They%20were%20made%20possible%20as,Building%20in%20New%20York%20City.


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