From The Works of Orville Dewey, 1893, by Orville Dewey.
A rare, second image from that famous view 800 feet above New York reveals a startling truth about "Lunch Atop A Skyscraper."
They say a poor worker blames his tools - which is especially true if they happen to be the shoulders of your workmate (pictured).
Construction workers depend on their hands to work. The Carpal Solution Home Treatment Kit is the go-to treatment for bricklayers, heavy equipment operators, miners, etc. to keep working without carpal tunnel pain and hand numbness.
For all construction companies, safety for the workers comes first, and at a time when finding skilled workers is becoming more difficult, any injury has an adverse effect beyond just the health of the worker. Many safety programs have been developed to protect employees from hazards on the job site, but only recently have experts promoted how important it is for workers to be properly stretched out prior to starting each workday.
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Following on from the 15 Incredible Historical Photographs list, we have another selection of 10. In no particular order: 1. Southern Sudan Kevin Carter took this photograph in southern Sudan. The picture would later bring him the Pulitzer prize, but also death. The image shows a vulture waiting for a child to starve to death.
How 'plucky' heroines of 1914-18 conflict seized chance to advance women's freedoms
Part of what makes this project so cool is how quickly it was completed, well before we expected. That's all due to the sharp instinct of our favorite
The author has conducted the Study mainly on Socio Inequalities, Employment generation, and Economical status and health problems of construction workers. The highlights of his research are wage discrimination between male and female workers, most of the construction works are migrated from different occupations, gradually decrease in the recent time…
This is the first look at one of the 3,992 apartments that are being built in the 42-acre site, along with three hotels, more than 250 shops and restaurants and a six-acre riverside park.
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune If you were to take a moment and think, who would you say originally built the Northern Kentucky stretch of the Dixie Highway and Ohio’s SR133 in Clermont County? I’ll give you a hint, it was the same group. If you guessed Native Americans or the pioneers, you’d be […]
The Big Apple’s early 20th-century building boom transformed the city with skyscrapers, subways and an awful lot of cement – as documented in these photographs from the New York Public Library’s archives
“The Brits may have invented English, but the Irish perfected it.”
Archaeologists think this skeleton, found in the Greek part of Italy and dating to 480 BC, is the oldest Olympian ever discovered.
Guedelon Castle is a project started in 1997, modeled on designs from the 13th century, and is being built using techniques and materials available to masons and builders 800 years ago.
Asbestos can be hiding in many parts of your old home. In this article you'll find where it may be hiding and how to protect yourself.
Today: Lightning light show, Beckham gets 'slimed' and a motor hot-tub
Motorway construction workers unearth archaeological artefacts which experts believe may be from a lost medieval Scots village.
(Photo: City Council of Tomares/AP)Construction workers in Tomares, Spain were laying pipe when they found 19 amphorae (ceramic jars) containing 1,300 pounds of bronze and silver coins that date back to 4th Century A.D. The Seville Archaeological Museum says that they were probably minted in the area and then stored to pay soldiers and government officials. The Guardian quotes archaeologist Ana Navarro:Navarro declined to give a precise estimate for the value of the haul, saying only that the coins ...
Construction workers in Wettin stumbled on collection of 285 old coins buried in 1650s and forgotten, archaeologists said and photos show.
These photographs showing the construction of landmark London buildings and infrastructure projects are taken from Collage: The London Picture Archive
A list of 50 construction terms and concepts all architects should know that are not necessarily taught in architecture schools.
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Donald Trump's hair should not be. It sits on his head like a soufflé, both airy and solid, as improbable as any building to which he's given his name.
"I thought it was incredibly cruel and I could tell my coworkers were pissed."
More than 1,200 black and white British photos are published for the first time together. They show people dealing with flooding, factory word and the war effort.
On the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2011, a backhoe dug into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and struck iron. Construction workers assumed they had hit a pipe. But when the claws of the backhoe emerged from the ground, it was dragging a body clothed in a white gown and knee-high socks.
WPA Federal Art Project, first major attempt at government patronage of the visual arts in the United States and the most extensive and influential of the visual arts projects conceived during the Depression of the 1930s by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is often confused
Arizona is getting so hot during the summer days, one construction site in Phoenix has had to redefine "nightlife" and pour concrete at 1 a.m.
Sarah Lockyer, 31, is the tiny program's co-ordinator and lone forensic anthropologist. She travels twice a year to France to study the remains of Canadians uncovered by construction workers or farmers in old battlefields increasingly invaded by modern-day development. On the trip back, it's not unusual for her to be carrying a piece of human bone in her luggage.
"I thought it was incredibly cruel and I could tell my coworkers were pissed."
Located between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is one of the least touristic countries in the world. Here are 7 awesome things to do in Kuwait.
What is the typical American workday? We take a look at how working hours change according to job type.
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Construction workers often face unsafe, difficult working conditions. Being more transparent could help.
Construction will go ahead, with protective materials placed over the mosaic to avoid further damage.
Most people rarely ever think about the laborers who put hours of work into making items that are so readily found in bulk, but photographer Michael Wolf
