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Century of Progress Exposition
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main span |
564 m |
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pylon height |
191 m |
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cost of construction |
US$ 1 000 000 |
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| November 1934
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| The "Century of Progress" fair is completely dismantled including the Skyride. |
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| Designed and built in the space of six month for the world exposition "A Century of Progress" in Chicago. It carried ten suspended cars with 36 passengers in each car. During its operation it carried a total of 4 500 000 passengers. It was subsequently demolished using dynamite on one tower and a charge of Thermit packed around the base of the other. |
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Fernández Troyano, Leonardo Tierra sobre el agua, Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain) , ISBN 8438001483, 1999; pp. 755.
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Kretschmer, Winfried Geschichte der Weltausstellungen (1st edition), Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt (Germany) , ISBN 3593362732, 1999; pp. 192.
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Ratigan, William Highways Over Broad Waters, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; pp. 224-227.
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Steinman, David B. Le Voyage Aérien à l'Exposition "Un siècle de progrès", à Chicago, 1933, in
"Ossature métallique", February 1934 v. 3 .
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