In 2007, The World Trade Center was ranked #19 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list. The Brooklyn Bridge was ranked #20.
The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) stretches 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River (main span of 1,595 feet 6 inches) connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn. On completion, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world--fifty percent longer than any previously built, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. For several years, the towers were also the tallest structures in the Western Hemipshere.
Designed by an engineering firm owned by John Augustus Roebling, the bridge...
With the closing of the Space Shuttle programme and what is effectively the end of the 'American Century', let's look back on the first flight of the Columbia in 1981 courtesy of the National Geographic Magazine...
Supposedly kids in school were...