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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #349
The first exterior glass elevator built in the United States was for the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, California. Dubbed the Starlight Express, the elevator carried passengers to the twelfth-floor Starlight Room Restaurant. Was this elevator constructed in 1938, 1956, or 1967?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #348
Answer each question true or false:
A. To find the number of cubic inches in a ball, multiply the cube of the ball's diameter by 0.5236.
B. Doubling the diameter of a pipe increases its capacity four times.
C. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water, multiply the height of the column in feet by 0.434.
D. A cubic foot of water contains 7.5 gallons, and 1,728 cubic inches, and weighs 62.5 pounds.
E. To find the diameter of a circle, multiply its circumference by 0.31831.
F. A side of a square multiplied by 1.4142 equals the diameter of the square's circumscribing circle.
Answer to Puzzler #348
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2007, Dave Guadagni.
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Inside a colored-glass elevator shaft at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Photo: Flickr user Janine
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