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the first mile of concrete highway is...
Woodward Avenue between Six Mile Road and Seven Mile Road
Location: Greenfield Township [now NW Detroit)
Year: 1909
Length: 1.2 miles
Width: 24 feet
Thickness: 6 1/2 Inches
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World's first wholly-stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge is....
Zhaozhou Bridge
It has a length of 167 feet (51 m) and span of 123 feet (37 m),
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The first major concrete dams,....
Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam (1936)
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First concrete domed sport structure is...
Assembly Hall(1967) was constructed at The University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign.
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The first tunnel known successfully to have been constructed underneath a navigable river is....
Thames Tunnel - an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, United Kingdom, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. it is 5 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of 75 feet (23 m) below the river's surface (measured at high tide).
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The first modern cantilever is...
Hassfurt Bridge across the Main River in Germany with a central span of 124 feet that was completed in 1867.It was designed by a German engineer by the name of Heinrich Gerber in 1866.
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the first dome structure to be built using the tensegrity concept is georgia dome.
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First state to adopt a numbering system as the network of roads increases is the....
Wisconsin(USA)
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The first building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height was...
Taipei 101
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First building in California to have a liquid tuned mass damper was....
One Rincon Hill South Tower
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The first wire-cable suspension bridge was.....
Footbridge at Falls of Schuylkill
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The first lighthouse to be operated by natural gas is...
Lighthouse at Barcelona Harbor south of Fredonia on Lake Erie
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The first public railway is the....
Surrey Iron Railway
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first steel frame skyscraper was...
Home Insurance Building in Chicago
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The first building code was in the Code of Hammurabi which specified:
* 229. If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
* 230. If it kills the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death.
* 231. If it kills a slave of the owner, then he shall pay, slave for slave, to the owner of the house.
* 232. If it ruins goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.
* 233. If a builder builds a house for someone, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
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The first structural engineer known by name and constructed the first known step pyramid in Egypt is....
Imhotep
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First “Civil Engineer” was.....
John Smeaton,an Englishman
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The first Cable-stayed bridge in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is...
Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge
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The first lighthouse of the World is the...
“Pharos of Alexandria”, lasted for over 1500 years in the harbor of Alexandria.
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The first concrete skyscraper is...
Ingalls bldg.
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The first modern greenhouses were built in Italy in the 13th century to house the exotic plants that explorers brought back from the tropics.
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The world's first (and only) concrete-domed multi-purpose stadium was.....
Seattle Kingdome
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The first Chinese hydraulic engineer is....
Sunshu Ao
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The first major prestressed concrete road bridge was the replacement for Northam Bridge, Southampton (1954).
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'The first lighthouse in the Philippines is....
Farola(1846)
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The first railway in Philippines is....
a railway connecting Manila and Dagupan(1892)
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The steel church of San Sebastian, now Basilica Minore, is considered as the world's first-ever all-steel basilica.
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The first hotel built in the Philippines is the....
Hotel del Oriente in Binondo, Manila
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The first solar-powered stadium in the world is....
Kaohsiung National Stadium
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The first public opera house was the............
Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, which opened in 1637.
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Major League Baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium is....
the Connie Mack Stadium also known as Shibe Park
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Goodison Park was the first purpose built football stadium in England.
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AAMI Park became Melbourne's first large purpose built rectangular stadium
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The first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron....
Iron bridge in England
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The first stadium to have movable seating in Australia is....
the Docklands Stadium
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The first modern suspension bridge outside the United States built with parallel wire cables is...
Otto Beit Bridge (1939)
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First engineered American road - Philadelphia to Lancaster toll turnpikee
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The first to use glass for windows are......
Romans
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The World’s First Underground Stadium is...."Wall" Stadium in Doha, Qatar.
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The Armour Building in Kansas City, Missouri, becomes the first office building to install an air-conditioning system. Each room is individually controlled with a thermostat that operates dampers in the ductwork, making it also the first office building to incorporate individual "zone" control of separate rooms.
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The Holland Tunnel was the world's first vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927.
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The SMART Tunnel in Malaysia is the first multipurpose tunnel in the world, as it is used both to control traffic and flood in Kuala Lumpur.
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The first retractable roof sports venue was Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The
Circus Maximus is the first arena built by the Roman Empire.
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The first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity was Cragside House, in Northumberland, England, in 1878.
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Queenstown Primary School is the first school in New Zealand to wear a ‘green roof’.
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The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors.
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Lambeau Field was the first stadium built completely for a National Football League team.
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The world's first building-integrated wind turbines is the...
Bahrain World Trade Center
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John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is the America's first UNDERWATER park
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The first stadium to be built in Africa was the Liberty Stadium now renamed Obafemi Awolowo Stadium.
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The China's first stadium that held the first international sport competition is Shanghai Hongkou Soccer Stadium.
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The first Allan truss was completed on 13 August 1894 over Glennies Creek at Camberwell, New South Wales.
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The
Corning glass building is also known as the Steuben Glass building was the first glass-walled skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.
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