How Did Humans Build The First Skyscrapers? | Supersized Structures | Spark

Explore the tallest towers, the biggest palaces, the grandest tombs and ancient temples that were forgotten for centuries. This episode shows how technique, technology, and ambition have developed some of the most magnificent structures in the world.
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Many of mankind's ideas to build big seem impossible. It's an inescapable aspect of progress: things just keep getting bigger. This is the story of dams, highways, bridges and buildings that have transformed cities and even countries. This riveting series explores a hundred years of engineering the biggest, heaviest, tallest structures, and looks at what was supersized 10 or even 100 years ago.
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[OHz]

13:03 a tuned mass damper is as old as modern skyscrapers, the fact that it’s a pendulum makes it unique

[EMERTHERofficial]

Fun fact:
*The Burj Khalifa isn't even connected to the sewer system, so every day trucks have to take the s__t away.*
seriously

[wiesiekgrm]

The Idea of all Spark's episodes is so genius🍀 A bit of doing research, after school which is not givin it, and then you know what authors want to provide us to ✌️🤞💪🍀

[johnh]

At about time 3:40 and the term "building Up" . About 25 yrs ago I saw an artists concept picture of a building designed by a Mexican man wherein his design was not to go up but to go down into the earth . At street level the apartment building would be wide . As you travelled downward it would narrow down to a point . Sunlight would be reflected in by use of mirrors . Do you know this mans name ?

[PRmoustache]

Yes, but the melting joists of the WTC buildings don't fall at free fall speeds as recorded by the cameras, and the structures would not fallen in such perfect symmetry if it was due to melted metal. The structure would fallen in an asymmetrical fashion as the heat would not have affected all the structure in the same way. The part of the building with most burning fuel would have caused the building to fall like a chopped at tree because of variations in heat distribution.

[olgastepanov]

10:15 1WTC is
417m tall to the roof
546m tall to the tip
541m is just symbolical

[Thehoeh]

What are we doing for 1M subscribers, Spark? 🥂

[QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Construct🚧🚧 orbital elevator, that would be quite a building🏢🏢

[psikeyhackr]

Curious how we are never told the distribution of steel down any skyscraper. Don't designers have to figure that out?

[freshstart]

Jet fuel won't melt steel beems let's go brandon

[gnicwwq]

im watching 2 versions of summerslam, get buzzed up first memphis

[jakemoeller]

The Daniel Libeskind-designed WTC 2.0 is a much more elegant group of buildings than what were eventually erected. It's too bad as the Freedom Tower is a monstrosity...IMO.

[jetsetter]

Facing my Fobia is high rise buildings.
I can't sleep up above 5ft floors up.
Vertical heights scare me.
Pyramids with balconies with no vertical drop on side I would feel comfortable living in. I'm sleepwalking after few drinks.

[crazylegs]

Where can we find the other 5 episodes of the series?

[jm]

KRRHap on the WTC coming down because of fire.

[gnicwwq]

oh yea kraine wasnt there when the underground concert took place she never met eddie i dont think, she was at her old job then

[raqialife]

The World Trade Center outer shell might have collapse but never would the center. No way at the speed it did. Sorry if anyone can’t handle the truth

[mingming]

07:46 Empire state building was very lucky. could've collapsed like twin towers!

[olgastepanov]

7:40 that graph is wrong.
381m tall to the roof
449m tall to the tip.

[rizqdanniel]

What about Petronas twin tower in KL, Malaysia?