Building the Empire State Building, an interactive engineering adventure
Type
Label
Building the Empire State Building, an interactive engineering adventure
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Building the Empire State Building
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
You choose. Engineering marvels
Sub title
an interactive engineering adventure
Summary
The Roaring 20s are in high gear, and so is skyscraper fever in New York City. People are fascinated by the plans to build the Empire State Building the worlds tallest building yet. Will you: Be an eager young assistant at the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the firm designing the Empire State Building? Join the project as a construction worker high atop the building as it rises above the city? Work as a water boy who carries water to the thirsty construction workers on the project? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you and the project to success or to failure
Target audience
juvenile
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Building, Iron and steel + History
- Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) -- Design and construction -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile literature
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- Building, Iron and steel + History -- Juvenile literature
- Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) -- Design and construction -- History
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject9
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Building, Iron and steel + History
- Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) -- Design and construction -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile literature
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- Building, Iron and steel + History -- Juvenile literature
- Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) -- Design and construction -- History
- Content1
- Author1