("Richard Lamb" wrote)
[snip]
Material gains over the last 100(!) years have been amazing.
For instance, can you imagine a wooden 747
Think I'm kidding?
Check out this 600 passenger design proposal by Bel Geddess, presented at
the New Your Worlds Fair in 1940.
And it's a SPAN LOADER, too!


http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tp-1/ged.pdf
That's neat ...in a 1929 -1940 kind of way.


Montblack