Before Modern Cranes: The Insane Way Seattle Built the Space Needle in 1961

Space Needle, World's Fair Century 21, Construction Methods Six hundred and five feet of steel rose above Seattle in under eight months — lifted by a crane that climbed up inside the tower itself, not beside it, on a schedule that a World's Fair could not afford to delay by even a week. Nothing this tall had gone up this fast on the West Coast before. The men assembling it worked without safety harnesses the entire time. And when the final piece was bolted into place, every ironworker who had spent that year five hundred feet above the ground walked off the site alive. In July, almost no one building it believed that was possible. This is the story of how the Space Needle was built. In today's video, we look at how the Space Needle was built… Keep watching to see Space Needle, World's Fair Century 21, Construction Methods Also check out:    • Before Modern Engineering: The Insane Way ...   #spaceneedle #civilengineering #construction