Quote by John Provan

“total of 1,599,640 man hours of labor went into the building of the LZ-129 “Hindenburg”. The price for technology is often measured in the…

— John Provan

“total of 1,599,640 man hours of labor went into the building of the LZ-129 “Hindenburg”. The price for technology is often measured in the…

— John Provan

“dramatically, but helium gas was 10 times as expensive. Under these conditions, Dr. Eckener, a pilot whose primary concern was safety and as Director…

— John Provan

“girders. All Zeppelins built thereafter would be constructed of this material. Apparently, some improvements were made in the Duralumin composition for LZ-129, increasing the…

— John Provan

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

— Jesse Ventura

“The Luftwaffe effectively “rented” slave labor from the SS both to build facilities and to operate manufacturing lines making V-2 rockets and other high-tech…

— Charles River Editors

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented…

— George Scratchley Brown

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

— Gianni Agnelli

“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle…

— Andrei Cherny

“At present there are only two land-based cranes in the world that could lift weights of this magnitude. At the very frontiers of construction…

— Graham Hancock

“In the 1930s, with no computers to precisely calculate tolerances of construction materials, cautious engineers simply heaped on excess mass and redundancy. “We’re living…

— Alan Weisman

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

— R. Buckminster Fuller