All the people will sooner or later have to make repairs in your housing or build a house.
In this fascinating article we will talk about the interesting facts that are not known to all, but worth it to know and read about them.
Interesting and funny facts about the building + 26 fact!
1) Why is the main building of the US Department of Defense Pentagon has a form?
The appearance of the main building of the US Department of Defense did not put any symbols.
The choice of place for him fell on a site in the Washington suburb of Arlington, on the right bank of the Potomac River,
which had the shape of an irregular pentagon.However, because of fears that the building will close view of the Washington
from Arlington National Cemetery, the construction site was relocated.
But the design has already begun, so they decided to leave the general form of the building as is.
And since the new section was not strictly limited by roads, the pentagon was made right - and the Pentagon appeared.
2) Secrets of ancient building materials 🔧 🔨
The ancient builders did not have the opportunity to use synthetic materials in their work. For the strength of mortar they did it with calf fur,
as well helping them conserve heat resin spruce cones.On the territory of Africa to this day there are buildings, for the construction of rock salt which was used.
It is worth noting that rains on the continent are rare, so the weather is not threatened by these buildings.
3) The world's first linoleum appeared much earlier than many users think.The origin of this type of flooring is obliged Nathan Smith
who in 1763 invented a special composition for the treatment of a fabric base linoleum.
The first prototype of linoleum in the form of a fabric that does not leak moisture.
To process the upper portion of the wax used, the resin and linseed oil.
4) How a French engineer saved the Great Pyramids of disassembly for building materials?
Louis Linan de Belfon, before becoming the chief engineer of the construction of the Suez Canal,
commanded the construction of dams and the construction of irrigation canals on the Nile.
To optimize the work, the ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha proposed the use of stone from the Great Pyramids.
Belfon was opposed, but understood that in case of failure, the pasha would hire another engineer.
To save the Pyramids, he provided fictitious calculations, according to which it turned out that the extraction of material from quarries would be cheaper.
5) Underfloor heating, like a stretch ceiling, appeared not in the 20th or 21st century, but already in Ancient Rome.
True, it was available, of course, exclusively for the wealthy segments of the population.
With the help of the so-called “Hypocaust” system, the slaves heated the underground.
To do this, they used fire, and for the exit of smoke from the room - air ducts in the wall.
6) What special ingredient is present in the cement that held together the blocks of the Great Wall of China? 📋
The Great Wall of China was built, expanded, collapsed and rebuilt over many centuries and millennia,
but most of its fragments that have survived to our time belong to the era of the Ming dynasty of the 14-17th centuries.
One reason for this is the surprisingly strong cement slurry of slaked lime and sticky boiled rice.
It was used to fasten blocks of not only the Wall, but also tombs, temples and many other buildings.
7) You can build a house from anything - for example, from wine peels (as a resident of the small Czech town Miroslav Svoboda did)
or from empty glass bottles (the project of which was created by a Ukrainian from the city of Zaporozhye).
8) Features of selling haunted houses in England !
An English realtor who sold a haunted house and did not warn the new owners about it,
must make compensation for the value of the transaction and assume the payment of legal costs.
9) Why not docked two halves of the bridge between the German and Swiss cities?
In Germany and Switzerland there are cities with the same name Laufenburg, separated by a river.
In 2003, they decided to jointly build a new bridge - the construction teams worked towards each other.
However, shortly before the meeting, it became obvious that the two halves of the bridge did not fit vertically at 54 cm due to errors
in the calculations related to sea level.
The fact is that the Germans define it relative to the North Sea, and the Swiss - relative to the Mediterranean.
Although the engineers initially knew about the difference of 27 cm, somehow, instead of zeroing, this figure doubled,
and the German part of the bridge had to be lowered.
10) One of the most unusual houses can rightly be called a house built of paper blocks.
Its peculiarity is that it is built not just of paper, but of banknotes that have gone out of circulation. The original building is located in Ireland.
11) What color was the Cheops pyramid originally?
Many Egyptian pyramids, including the Cheops pyramid, were originally lined with white polished limestone blocks that sparkled brightly in the sun.
However, over time, they were disassembled and used for the construction of fortresses, mosques and other structures.
12) Lego-house is real. Briton James May proved that you can build a full-fledged residential building from the designer.
13) Ancient chinese toilet
The oldest toilet was invented 2000 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered a similar product in one of the Chinese provinces.
14) What connects the first and last victims during the construction of the Hoover Dam?
During the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, 112 people died. The first one was someone named Tierney,
drowned in the process of choosing the most suitable place for the dam.
The last dead is his son Patrick, and this happened exactly 13 years after the death of his father.
15) Another unusual solution is a private house on the roof of a high-rise building.
Of course, the purpose of building a house on the roof of a high-rise building is not entirely clear,
but this does not negate the fact of the existence of such an original structure.
16) What trick has allowed builders to make Chrysler Building the tallest building?
Many skyscrapers were built in New York in the 1920s, and several buildings eventually claimed the title of the tallest in the world.
One of them was a high-rise on Wall Street 40, the builders of which shortly before the end of work changed the project and pulled ahead in the meters competition.
Then competing architects skyscraper Chrysler Building went to the trick, secretly erecting a building under construction in the spire height of 38 meters.
The operation to install the spire took only an hour and a half.
The opponents were not ready for such an eventuality, and the final height of 319 meters has allowed Chrysler Building overtake height
Not only all the skyscrapers of New York, but also the Eiffel Tower.
17) What about a transparent house? Some residents of the Japanese capital around the clock are in the sight of the curious glances of tourists,
because they live in a completely transparent apartment building.
18) Why did the Japanese use nightingale floors?
The Japanese castles and temples to a stranger was difficult to sneak unnoticed, often installed so-called "nightingale floors".
The floorboards were nailed to the poles with an inverted V-shaped mount, which made a bird-like sound when the board was under pressure.
Moreover, walking on tiptoe only enhanced the effect, since the pressure on the floor in this case was higher than from a full foot.
19) The existence of diamond parquet is not a myth. The cost of one square meter of such coverage reaches 1 million dollars.
Of course, it is made not only from diamonds, but also from mother of pearl and onyx.
20) Where is the smallest skyscraper in the world?
In 1912, oil was found near the American town of Wichita Falls, which provided him with an influx of immigrants and economic growth.
The city was not enough office space, and an engineer McMahon planned construction of a skyscraper height of 480 feet (about 146 meters)
finding investors for the project. However, in the construction contract, the height was indicated not in feet, but in inches, which customers did not notice.
The result is a 4-storey building 12 meters high, and investors have not been able to prove in court the fact of fraud.
Now this building is called the smallest skyscraper in the world.
21) In which country is a separate concrete bunker built for each family?
In 1967, the ruler of socialist Albania, Enver Hoxha launched a program of universal "bunkering" of the country in case of war.
It operated for almost 20 years, and during this time more than 700 thousand concrete bunkers were built - one for each family.
On average, each square kilometer of the territory of Albania accounted for 24 of the bunkers.
Today they are partially dismantled in cities, but most continue to stand and are the most recognizable feature of the Albanian landscape.
Some bunkers have been converted into cafes or mini-hotels, and teenagers have found the most popular use for dates. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
22) In which country do most residents allow elves to exist?
The most famous representatives of Icelandic folklore are the huldufolk, or hidden people, which are often identified with elves.
According to legend, these creatures are hiding in the mountains, although some Icelanders build small houses for them in their gardens and even small churches,
to convert elves to Christianity. Sometimes in Iceland, building projects or communications change
in order not to violate the alleged habitats of the elves, and in 2004 Alcoa even had to obtain a certificate from a government expert stating that
that the chosen place for the construction of an aluminum smelting plant is free of hidden people.
Surveys show that the number of Icelanders who admit or are confident in its existence is greater than those who doubt or completely deny the elves.
23) In which country are building whole neighborhoods, almost completely copied from European cities?
In China, you can find whole neighborhoods copied from European cities.
For example, 30 kilometers from Shanghai a “typical German city” is built with stylized houses, street lamps, monuments to Goethe and Schiller,
and in Chengdu, an almost exact copy of the English Dorchester.
Also near Shanghai there are "mini-versions" of Venice and Barcelona.
In the near future - the "cloning" of the Austrian Hallstatt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, including its famous picturesque lake.
24) How did the Russian tsar - Peter III once turn garbage disposal from expensive to free?
After the construction of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg was completed, the entire area was littered with construction waste.
Emperor Peter III decided to get rid of him in an original way - he ordered the people to be announced that everyone could take anything from the square,
and for free. A few hours later, all construction debris was cleared.
25) Where do they worship American transport aircraft?
From the end of the 19th century, the cult of cargo began to spread among the natives
of the islands of Melanesia - the belief that Western goods were sent to them by the spirits of their ancestors,
and white people illegally own them. The cult intensified after World War II, when the islands became a theater of operations,
and industrial goods (cargo) for the supply of the American army fell and to local residents.
When the war, and with it the flow of goods, ended, the natives began to build from wood and straw exact copies of the runways,
airports and radio towers and carry out the likeness of military marches.
However, transport aircraft did not attract this, and gradually the cults of cargo in Melanesia came to naught.
26) Who built the pyramids of skulls?
The great conqueror Tamerlan built after the victories of the pyramid from the skulls of the people he killed.
The highest of them, built after the capture of the city of Isfahan, totaled 70,000 skulls.
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