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to set the feel for the show, the orchestra plays, a Country Dance.
To have a dignified place for the seat of government, the Pennsylvania legislature appropriates funds for a worthy structure. It takes years for the main building to be completed by the guilds of trained carpenters. Lawmakers are very impressed with the workmanship. As stately as the laws being forged inside.
Craftsmen top it all off with the liberty bell to ring freedom throughout the land.
he early shrine of freedom still stands today.
Fast forward to the days of the first steel-framed buildings.
Newsboys hawk papers in the streets of Chicago and brag on the architecture of the city. The lad wants to build sky scrapers and talks with an architect of the tall buildings. His future finds him in line with constructing the Empire State Building. Deadlines put on the pressure, and the young boss is eager to beat the record so he can afford an operation for his bride. Tons of steel, work gangs, and their bosses come through.
Duponte shares how chemistry is tied to modern steel constructions. Namely how stainless steel, chromium. is processed.
