Rebecca Pettiford - Skyscrapers

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Skyscrapers / by Rebecca Pettiford. pages cm. (Amazing structures) Audience: Ages 79. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62031-210-0 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-62496-297-4 (ebook) 1.

SkyscrapersJuvenile literature. I. Title. NA6230.P48 2015 720.483dc23 2014042535 Series Editor: Jenny Fretland VanVoorst Series Designer: Anna Peterson Photo Researcher: Anna Peterson Photo Credits: All photos by Shutterstock except:
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CHAPTER 1
Touching the Sky CHAPTER 2
The First Skyscrapers CHAPTER 3
Building Skyscrapers Have you ever
stacked blocks
to build a tall
tower? CHAPTER 1 People have built tall buildings for a long
time.

Early buildings were made of heavy
stone. The walls were thick to support
the weight of the stone. CHAPTER 1

Today, most tall buildings
are in cities. They are made
of steel , glass, and concrete .
They are called skyscrapers. People work in skyscrapers.
They live in them, too. CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 Space is limited in a city.
Building up gives people
more floor space.

They can
live and work in space that
had once just been sky! DID YOU KNOW? To rise into the sky,
a skyscraper must
be rooted in the
ground. Thats why the
first step in building up is to dig down.
The basement is almost always the
first part of a skyscraper to be built. CHAPTER 1

In the 1800s, important inventions
made skyscrapers possible. People found a way to make
a lot of steel. CHAPTER 2 Safe elevators moved people
quickly to each floor. Now buildings could have more
floors.

They could be taller. CHAPTER 2

Burj Khalifa CHAPTER 2 The first steel skyscrapers were
in Chicago and New York City. The Empire State Building
in New York was the first
building to have more than
floors. The tallest skyscraper
has floors. It is called
the Burj Khalifa and is
in Dubai. DID YOU KNOW? The Burj Khalifa is half
a mile ( .8 kilometers ) tall.
How tall is that? Thats as
tall as second graders
standing on top of one
another.

Thats tall! CHAPTER 2

Skyscrapers are built around
a steel frame . It is made
of beams and columns . CHAPTER 3 The frame supports the
weight of the building
and everything inside it. It resists the pull of gravity .
It also must stand up to wind
and earthquakes. CHAPTER 3 Who builds skyscrapers? Architects draw the building.
They decide how it will look.
They decide how many floors
it will have. TAKE A LOOK! Check out some skyscrapers known
for their unusual shapes: Burj
al
Arab Transamerica
Pyramid 30
St.

Mary
Axe Taipei
101 Shanghai
World Financial
Center CHAPTER 3

architect CHAPTER 3 Engineers decide how strong
the steel frame needs to be. Building inspectors go inside.
They make sure the building
is safe. DID YOU KNOW? The Petronas Twin Towers
is in Malaysia . A bridge
connects the towers. It helps