Title
Working Drawings, Seven-Story Mill
Description
The first building ever designed or executed with a metal skeleton -- cast iron columns and beams -- enclosed in the outer masonry walls like the works of a watch in its case.
Creator
Watt and Boulton
Source
Giedion, Siegfried
Space, Time, and Architecture, 5th, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1967
Publisher
Department of Visual Studies
University at Buffalo
Date
1801
CE
Contributor
Joe Easterly
Rights
Type
architectural drawings
drawings
Still Image
Identifier
VS4558339
jq-20100515-1
Date Created
2011-08-18
Date Modified
2011-08-18
Is Part Of
Visual Resources Collection
VS001
Spatial Coverage
Salford, Manchester
Temporal Coverage
British
Audience
AHI391
UB Only
Collection
Citation
Watt and Boulton, “Working Drawings, Seven-Story Mill,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed July 4, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/29870.