Historians sometimes ignore the blatant nonsense that they have written down. Probably because they are humanitarians, and do not imagine how complex some technological processes are, which are so easy to describe, but not so easy to implement. For example, a tale from historians about Chicago.
In the middle of the 19th century, 20 years after the construction of the city, which stands on a swampy area, the inhabitants of the city realized that it was necessary to build a sewage system, because the city began to sink in mud. And the horses moved with great difficulty. They even put up humorous signs with inscriptions that the bottom was not found.
We decided to raise all city buildings by 1.5 meters, lay pipes and lay soil. We decided to use "screw jacks" to lift the house.
They laid pipes above the ground, and then raised all the buildings with the help of jacks, some houses were simply lifted, some were moved. Where did they get so much soil to put under the buildings?
As a result, half of the city was moved due to the need to make a sewage system. There is too little reason for such a large-scale work. Well, they would have raised the buildings, but for some reason it was decided to drag the houses from place to place.
They founded a city in a swamp, lived for themselves, discovered a problem, build a sewage system by moving entire blocks from place to place.
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The plan is just excellent, jacks have already been invented and there are horses, you can build.
The first brick house was raised in 1858, 21 meters long, 2 meters high, the weight of the building was 750 tons, no damage was done to the building. There wasn't even a crack. In the same year, another 50 buildings were moved. Everything was handled by one company, 6 engineers worked hard in it.
Two years later, the company turned around and the transfer of houses was already commonplace for them, they moved entire neighborhoods, important objects, all without damaging the buildings the first time. In five days, 600 workers, using 600 jacks, raised the block by 1.5 meters, raised the hotel from a brick with an area of 4 thousand squares, the guests of the hotel did not even know that they had been lifted.
Frame and wooden buildings were not lifted, but transported to other places, to the outskirts, sometimes entire blocks were moved. This was done so often that it was perceived by the residents as ordinary cargo transportation.
But this is history, and now let's see how realizable what is described.
Two years later, the company turned around and the transfer of houses was already commonplace for them, they moved entire neighborhoods, important objects, all without damaging the buildings the first time. In five days, 600 workers, using 600 jacks, raised the block by 1.5 meters, raised the hotel from a brick with an area of 4 thousand squares, the guests of the hotel did not even know that they had been lifted.
Frame and wooden buildings were not lifted, but transported to other places, to the outskirts, sometimes entire blocks were moved. This was done so often that it was perceived by the residents as ordinary cargo transportation.
But this is history, and now let's see how realizable what is described.
The buildings were transported along the same streets, where yesterday the carts were sinking and there were signs that the bottom had not been found. A dump truck with sand weighing 12-15 tons is buried on good soil, and they transported 1000-ton houses there through the mud.
13 october
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What is wrong with the history of Chicago. How buildings were lifted and transported by horse
Historians sometimes ignore the blatant nonsense that they have written down. Probably because they are humanitarians, and do not imagine how complex some technological processes are, which are so easy to describe, but not so easy to implement. For example, a tale from historians about Chicago.
In the middle of the 19th century, 20 years after the construction of the city, which stands on a swampy area, the inhabitants of the city realized that it was necessary to build a sewage system, because the city began to sink in mud. And the horses moved with great difficulty. They even put up humorous signs with inscriptions that the bottom was not found.
We decided to raise all city buildings by 1.5 meters, lay pipes and lay soil. We decided to use "screw jacks" to lift the house.
They laid pipes above the ground, and then raised all the buildings with the help of jacks, some houses were simply lifted, some were moved. Where did they get so much soil to put under the buildings?
As a result, half of the city was moved due to the need to make a sewage system. There is too little reason for such a large-scale work. Well, they would have raised the buildings, but for some reason it was decided to drag the houses from place to place.
They founded a city in a swamp, lived for themselves, discovered a problem, build a sewage system by moving entire blocks from place to place.
The plan is just excellent, jacks have already been invented and there are horses, you can build.
The first brick house was raised in 1858, 21 meters long, 2 meters high, the weight of the building was 750 tons, no damage was done to the building. There wasn't even a crack. In the same year, another 50 buildings were moved. Everything was handled by one company, 6 engineers worked hard in it.
Two years later, the company turned around and the transfer of houses was already commonplace for them, they moved entire neighborhoods, important objects, all without damaging the buildings the first time. In five days, 600 workers, using 600 jacks, raised the block by 1.5 meters, raised the hotel from a brick with an area of 4 thousand squares, the guests of the hotel did not even know that they had been lifted.
Frame and wooden buildings were not lifted, but transported to other places, to the outskirts, sometimes entire blocks were moved. This was done so often that it was perceived by the residents as ordinary cargo transportation.
But this is history, and now let's see how realizable what is described.
The buildings were transported along the same streets, where yesterday the carts were sinking and there were signs that the bottom had not been found. A dump truck with sand weighing 12-15 tons is buried on good soil, and they transported 1000-ton houses there through the mud.
In the engravings, jacks around the perimeter of the building are great. So that the bottom of the building does not fall out, jacks are also needed under it. They must be substituted so that nothing falls off the foundation and does not crush anyone. To move a building under it, you need to put something. For example logs. They can only be rolled on a perfectly flat surface. The logs must be very long, of the same diameter and equally strong. And the building itself should stand on a monolithic and perfectly flat slab. So the logs are falling off.
Only one thing remains: they hooked a horse to the building, the men picked it up around the perimeter and, with a song, dragged the building to a new place along with furniture and residents who had no idea of anything.
Lifting and moving houses is real and takes place in the modern world. This is hard work that requires tremendous engineering effort.
