As a follow-up to my last Substack post, in my latest post I present two Hartford examples of a dramatic aspect of the construction of steel-framed buildings in the early twentieth century: the tossing of red hot rivets across large distances by teams of iron workers.

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Latest Substack Newsletter Post: Throwing Red Hot Rivets Above Hartford