What You Don’t Know About Manhattan’s Most Dangerous Building

In 1978 New York came close to destruction, and we got the story firsthand from the student who prevented it. This video contains paid promotion for AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™. Michael Greenburg's book The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower is available here -...

36 min - Engineering & Megastructures - The B1M

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