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The World Trade Center complex housed more than 430 companies that were engaged in various commercial activities. [93] The complex hosted 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m 2) of office space, [94] [95] which according to a 1970 account was supposed to accommodate 130,000 people. [6]
The scheme was retained after war to help hasten the transition to peace. Following an economic crisis in 1947 efforts were redoubled and newspaper adverts explained how every ton of paper saved was equal to 2,956,800 cigarettes; 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) of ceiling board; 17,000 sheets of brown wrapping paper or 201,600 books of matches ...
Of the 110 stories in each tower, 8 were set aside as mechanical floors. All the remaining floors were open for tenants. Each floor of the tower had 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) of available space. The North and South tower had 3,800,000 square feet (350,000 m 2) of total office space. [24]
The 3,552-square-foot (330.0 m 2) photograph was made to mark the end of 165 years of film/chemistry-based photography and the start of the age of digital photography. It was taken using a decommissioned Marine Corps jet hangar (Building #115 at El Toro) transformed into the world's largest camera to make the world's largest picture.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
[1] Pictures nominated by the public were reviewed by editors who then compiled 100 photographs that they felt portrayed technological photographic achievements, documented historic events and accomplishments or have achieved iconic cultural and, symbolic status. [1]
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In what were formerly the offices of the Postmaster General of the United States, the company planned two "presidential suites" of 3,000 square feet (280 m 2) each with 16-foot (4.9 m) ceilings. Each presidential suite would have a working fireplace, sauna, steam room, walk-in closet , direct-access elevators, and views of Pennsylvania Avenue ...