| Show skyscrapers AND PYRAMID the engineering saya no ono has been able to decide bow the stones in aho Pyram tda handled for even allow ins for the vast army oe men some sort of mechanical contrivance must have been used one theory 1 that as each course of atone was laid land embankment wag built around it with long eaby slopes so that the stones for the next course could be pushed up on rollers and slid into place without any actual fitting and BO on the pyramid being in fact buried as fast as it was built until the top was reached when the stupendous job of removing the sand embankment was commenced this might account for abo vast amount of laborers used for instance it is said that in building the groat pyramid of choops men were employed far eighty years although the quarry from which the stone was obtained was only 1000 feet from the the city investing building the largest skyscraper in new york nap to be nearly the same height as the p aramia jf we required the same number of days labor for this building which takes a year to orect as the took we would have thirty multiplied by or men working every day for ono earon this one building a number of men equal to almost the entire population including women and children of new york alyf trying to reach the corner of broadway and cortland street every morning even if they got there there gouid remain the impossibility of finding standing loom let alone working room for them or of providing a commissariat or hygienic department part ment against this men working every day for one year the average number on the city investing would not exceed 2000 men 1 day while the maximum would probably reach |
