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Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, located in New York City, was the tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1972, and is the first building to have more than 100 stories.
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What year did an airplane hit the Empire State Building?
Saturday, July 28, 1945. On that foggy morning Lt. Colonel William Smith was piloting a U.S. Army B-25 bomber through New York City on his way to Newark Airport to pick up his commanding officer. For some unknown reason, though, he showed up over LaGuardia Airport asking for a weather report. The LaGuardia tower wanted him to land because of the poor visibility. Smith, however, requested and received permission from the military to continue on to Newark.
The ten-ton, B-25 bomber smashed into the north side of the Empire State Building at 9:49 a.m. killing 14 people (11 office workers and the three crewmen) plus injuring 26 others. The cost of the damage done by the crash was $1 million. ________________________________________________ *Source: "http://history1900s.about.com/od/1940s/a/empirecrash.htm".
What is the tallest building in Paris?
List of five tallest buildings in Paris:
1. Eiffel Tower (324 metres)
2. Tour First (231 metres)
3. Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower) (210 metres)
4. Maudétour en Vexin transmitter (200 metres)
5. Tour Total (187 metres)
1. Find height of empire state building 2. Assume average walking speed of 3mph 3. Convert mph into feet per hour (5280 ft in 1 mile) 4. Rate (ft per hour) = distance (height of building) / time (in hours) 4a. 3mph = distance / X
How was math used in the process of building the Empire State Building?
by measuring the degree, angle, volume, width and height of it.
What state is known as the''pan handle state''?
Florida Oklahoma Texas Idaho west Virginia, Virginia, north Carolina. New Mexico Maryland
What is the distance to the city of New York from New York state?
The City of New York IS IN the State of New York.
It is is the southern portion of the state.
How much taller is the building Burj Dubai than the Empire State Building?
Much taller, by any standard. But the names of both have changed:
Burj Dubai is now Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at 2717 feet (828 m).
Sears Tower is now Willis Tower, the 2nd tallest building in the US at 1451 feet (452 m).
This is more than 87% taller. If Willis were 100 feet shorter, Khalifa would be twice as tall.
There is a bit less difference if you measure to the habitable height:
It is 1918 feet to the 163rd floor of the Khalifa vs. 1354 feet to the top floor of the Willis Tower. This is still half-again as tall as the Chicago skyscraper's usable height.
The Willis Tower, because it is not as drastically tapered, has about 25% more floor space (4.4. million vs 3.3 million square feet) than the Burj Khalifa.
Is the Empire State Building made from limestone?
the Empire State Building was made out of granite and Indian limestone. cool huh?
Why did Britain want to build an overseas empire?
An independent Sudan was seen as a potential threat to British dominance in Egypt. French expansion in Africa by 1896 also threatened to extend to the upper Nile, so the British decided to get there first. And Sudan offered a means to connect British-controlled lands to the north and southeast.
How many inches the empire state building?
the empire state building is a whopping 6,899,840 inches tall
Which native american group was the first to build cities in the new world?
The Olmecs of Central America
What is the empire state building's form?
The Empire State Building is composed of multiple shapes. The picture below should help.
It has a wider base but is essentially a set of rectangular prisms going up the building.
Toward the upper floors there are a pair of rectangular prisms with rounded corners. I suppose these might technically be octagonal prisms (8 sides), I'm not sure.
Then there is a set of levels that are square then a cylinder on top. The absolute tippy-top is a hemi-sphere (half sphere).
What is acid rain and what causes it?
Precipitation, rain, snow or sleet contains relatively high concentrations of acid forming chemicals as pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing and smelting that have been released into the atmosphere and combines with water vapour. This is harmful to the environment. There are a number of ways to prevent this harm. Switch fuel sources to natural gas, low sulphur coal, remove sulphur from coal before burning, install catalytic converters, maybe road traffic restrictions, reduce acidity in affected water systems with the addition of powdered limestone
When was the empire state completed?
The ribbon was cut on the 1st of March 1931 but the building was officially opened on May 1st, 1931.
How long did it take to build the tallest building in the world?
The Sears Tower was begun in August 1970, and reached it's full height on 4 May, 1973. It opened for business later that year, but was not fully completed until 1974. Sears Tower was renamed Willis Tower on 16 July 2009.
How many sub floors are in the empire state building?
Officially the Empire State Building has 102 floors but unofficially has 104 floors. I know this for a fact because I have been on floors 103 and 104. I have even circled floor 103 - on the outside. 104. Floor 104 is the dome. There is a ladder on 102 to 103 and another ladder from 103 to 104. Floors 103 and 104 are not official floors since they are utility floors and are not available to the public. Accordingly, the Empire State Building has 102 floors officially and 104 floors unofficially. Floors 103 and 104 and "floors" 90- 101 inside the mooring mast are not regarded as floors according to officials of the building because they contain utilities. In fact, half the floors inside the mast don't even exist; the other half can best be described as "platforms" composed of steel gratings. I know this because I have seen them and stood on "floor" 97. The elevator operator told me, when I questioned him about the number of floors, that every 12 feet of height is considered a "floor" whether or not it exists. Incidentally, when the mast was under consideration for docking air ships, what is now floor 103 was then floor 102. Since that proposal never materialized, 102 became 103, 101 became 102, etc. Read more: How_many_floors_does_the_Empire_State_Building_have
