The Washington Monument
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Washington Monument: Illustrated; An Authentic History of Its Origin and Construction, and a Complete Description of Its Memorial Tablets The Washington Monument occupies a prominent site near the banks of the Potomac, west of the Mall, at the former confluence of the Tiber with the main stream, and half a mile due south of the Executive Mansion. It stands on a terrace 17 feet high. The square of 41 acres in which the Monument stands was designated on L´Enfant´s plan of the City of Washington as the site for the proposed Monument to Washington, which was ordered by the Continental Congress in 1783 and approved by Washington himself. The Monument stands close to the intersection of the Jeffersonian meridian line of 1802, passing through the center of the Executive Mansion, north and south, with a line running east and west through the center of the Capitol. The total height of the Monument above ground is 555 feet 5 1/3 inches; or 597 feet 3 inches above mean low water in the Potomac; or 596 feet 9.36 inches above the mean level of the Atlantic at Sandy Hook, N.Y.; or 592 feet from its foundation bed. The entire height has been made slightly greater than ten times the breadth of base. The Monument is the highest permanent structure in the world. The estimated number of stones in the shaft is 23,000, and its total weight, including foundation and earth upon it, 81,120 tons. The mean pressure of the Monument is 5 tons per square foot. The total cost of the structure, in round figures, amounted to about $1,500,000. The popular subscription reached the sum of $300,000, and Congress appropriated the necessary balance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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