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Civil War:
“We have a rod across to keep the walls from bursting out. We see how to do away with having to have stone buttresses. So we have tension suddenly coming in only about a little over a century ago. Tensile came of importance. And there have been higher tensile abilities on the sea with fiber-made ropes, but they rotted pretty quickly. They were too stretchable to use in building on the land. With that tension coming to parity with compression, men suddenly had much bigger span. And that’s the beginning of his doing a lot of work inside-- indoors. This came along exactly the same time as the dynamo. This is why Abraham Lincoln… the Civil War was really the beginning of men being able to do things in the colder North, where they had steel for boilers and where they could begin to control the heat inside. They are beginning to do things which produce wealth, or higher advantage for man, under convert, under controlled conditions, as he had been doing out in the fields up to then. That’s why we really had the Civil War: the only difference between people doing things for the North under controlled conditions versus people who were doing things in the South with their agriculture out in the open. From this time on tensile strength begins to increase very rapidly.”
¶ Citations
- Univ. of Alaska Address, pp.13-14, 20 Apr '72
