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Why should we assume he was familiar with the building techniques used in Chicago? Perhaps he just reinvented what already existed.
by dgoldstein0 3y ago
Why should we assume he was familiar with the building techniques used in Chicago? Perhaps he just reinvented what already existed.
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- gumby 3y agoYour general point makes sense: it’s true that 150 years ago news was more local. But thanks to the telegraph and train even local news contained wider affairs. And as I put in my comment, the Chicago building was famous — world famous in fact. It was a technological phenomenon like the telephone. And an architect of large buildings couldn’t have not heard about it any more than a programmer not have heard of an LLM today.