The First....
This thread is dedicated to all first...first arch bridge, first concrete highway, first steel bridge.....😀
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maria florthe 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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maria florWorld'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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maria florThe first major concrete dams,....
Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam (1936) -
maria florFirst concrete domed sport structure is...
Assembly Hall(1967) was constructed at The University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. -
maria florThe 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). -
maria florThe 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. -
CIVILPRINCESSthe first dome structure to be built using the tensegrity concept is georgia dome.
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maria florFirst state to adopt a numbering system as the network of roads increases is the....
Wisconsin(USA) -
maria florThe first building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height was...
Taipei 101 -
maria florFirst building in California to have a liquid tuned mass damper was....
One Rincon Hill South Tower -
maria florThe first wire-cable suspension bridge was.....
Footbridge at Falls of Schuylkill -
maria florThe first lighthouse to be operated by natural gas is...
Lighthouse at Barcelona Harbor south of Fredonia on Lake Erie -
maria florThe first public railway is the....
Surrey Iron Railway -
maria florfirst steel frame skyscraper was...
Home Insurance Building in Chicago -
maria florThe 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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maria florThe first structural engineer known by name and constructed the first known step pyramid in Egypt is....
Imhotep -
maria florFirst “Civil Engineer” was.....
John Smeaton,an Englishman -
maria florThe first Cable-stayed bridge in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is...
Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge
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maria florThe first lighthouse of the World is the...
“Pharos of Alexandria”, lasted for over 1500 years in the harbor of Alexandria. -
maria florThe first concrete skyscraper is...
Ingalls bldg.
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maria florThe 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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maria florThe world's first (and only) concrete-domed multi-purpose stadium was.....
Seattle Kingdome -
maria florThe first Chinese hydraulic engineer is....
Sunshu Ao -
maria florThe first major prestressed concrete road bridge was the replacement for Northam Bridge, Southampton (1954).
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maria flor'The first lighthouse in the Philippines is....
Farola(1846) -
maria florThe first railway in Philippines is....
a railway connecting Manila and Dagupan(1892) -
maria florThe steel church of San Sebastian, now Basilica Minore, is considered as the world's first-ever all-steel basilica.
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maria florThe first hotel built in the Philippines is the....
Hotel del Oriente in Binondo, Manila -
maria florThe first solar-powered stadium in the world is....
Kaohsiung National Stadium
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maria florThe first public opera house was the............
Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, which opened in 1637. -
maria florMajor League Baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium is....
the Connie Mack Stadium also known as Shibe Park -
maria florGoodison Park was the first purpose built football stadium in England.
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maria florAAMI Park became Melbourne's first large purpose built rectangular stadium
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maria florThe first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron....
Iron bridge in England -
maria florThe first stadium to have movable seating in Australia is....
the Docklands Stadium -
maria florThe first modern suspension bridge outside the United States built with parallel wire cables is...
Otto Beit Bridge (1939) -
maria florFirst engineered American road - Philadelphia to Lancaster toll turnpikee
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maria florThe first to use glass for windows are......
Romans -
maria florThe World’s First Underground Stadium is...."Wall" Stadium in Doha, Qatar.
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maria florThe 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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maria florThe Holland Tunnel was the world's first vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927.
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maria florThe 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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maria florThe first retractable roof sports venue was Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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maria florThe Circus Maximus is the first arena built by the Roman Empire.
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maria florThe first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity was Cragside House, in Northumberland, England, in 1878.
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maria florQueenstown Primary School is the first school in New Zealand to wear a ‘green roof’.
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maria florThe Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors.
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maria florLambeau Field was the first stadium built completely for a National Football League team.
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maria florThe world's first building-integrated wind turbines is the...
Bahrain World Trade Center
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maria florJohn Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is the America's first UNDERWATER park
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maria florThe first stadium to be built in Africa was the Liberty Stadium now renamed Obafemi Awolowo Stadium.
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maria florThe China's first stadium that held the first international sport competition is Shanghai Hongkou Soccer Stadium.
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maria florThe first Allan truss was completed on 13 August 1894 over Glennies Creek at Camberwell, New South Wales.
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maria florThe Corning glass building is also known as the Steuben Glass building was the first glass-walled skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.
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