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    Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
    Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
    Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
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    Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure

    By Allison Lassieur

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    The Roaring 20s are in high gear, and so is skyscraper fever in New York City. People are fascinated by the plans to build the Empire State Building the worlds tallest building yet. Will you: Be an eager young assistant at the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the firm designing the Empire State Building? Join the project as a construction worker high atop the building as it rises above the city? Work as a water boy who carries water to the thirsty construction workers on the project? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you and the project to success or to failure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491428887
    Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
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    Allison Lassieur

    Allison Lassieur has never had pop-star dreams, but she once sang in a choir that went on a multi-state tour on the way to Walt Disney World. Today she’s an award-winning author of more than 150 history and non-fiction books about everything from Ancient Rome to the International Space Station. Her books have received several Kirkus starred reviews and Booklist recommendations, and her historical novel Journey to a Promised Land was awarded the 2020 Kansas Library Association Notable Book Award, and Library of Congress Great Reads Book selection. Allison lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a scruffy, loveable mutt named Jingle Jack, and more books than she can count.

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      Building the Empire State Building - Allison Lassieur

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      ABOUT YOUR

      ADVENTURE

      The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world when it was completed. It remains one of the most famous structures in the United States. Built during the hard times of the Great Depression, it became a symbol of hope for the country.

      In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between success and failure. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page. After you finish one path, go back and read the others. Use your device’s back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice. Then try a different link for a new adventure.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      For the best You Choose experience,

      view in portrait (vertical) orientation.

      CHAPTER 1

      Race to the Sky

      It was the tallest structure on Earth. Some people called it the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Empire State Building was a marvel of architecture and technology when it was finished in 1931.

      This grand building was thought up during a time of big ideas. The 1920s were a period of excitement. Jobs were plentiful in the United States, and almost everyone seemed to have enough money.

      Standing at 1,250 feet, the Empire State Building became the tallest skyscraper in the world in 1931. Its design is said to have been largely based on the shape of a pencil.

      During the Roaring Twenties wealthy Americans made their fortunes in businesses such as railroads, oil, and automobiles. After years of making money, many of these individuals began looking for new challenges. For some, the perfect challenge was competing to build the world’s tallest building.

      Many notable people wanted to be a part of the great New York skyscraper race. Rich businessmen began pouring millions of dollars into building projects.

      One of the first great skyscraper projects began when millionaire Frank W. Woolworth paid cash to finance the construction of the Woolworth Building. The 60-story Woolworth Building became famous when it was completed in 1913. It remained the tallest building in the world for the next 17 years.

      The Metropolitan Life North Building was designed to break height records at 100 stories tall. But financial problems forced construction to stop at floor 29.

      With 77 stories the Chrysler Building became the world’s tallest when it was finished in 1930. But a new challenger, the Empire State Building, would soon rise even higher.

      The Empire State was the tallest and the grandest skyscraper the world had ever seen. Its clean, modern lines were designed according to the Art Deco style. The city—and the whole country—was proud of the new building when it was finished in 1931.

      The Great Depression caused many people to struggle to feed their families. In the scene above, unemployed New Yorkers in 1930 wait to receive food from a charitable organization.

      But major economic changes had occurred by 1931. The fun, carefree days of the 1920s had come to an end. In October 1929 the stock market crashed, sending the country into the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their jobs. There wasn’t much to be hopeful about. The Empire State Building was one of the few construction projects that went on after the crash. People saw it as a sign that things were going to get better.

      You can experience the danger, struggle,

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