What Holds it Together - Fasteners & Fixings on Iconic Structures

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WHAT HOLDS IT TOGETHER?

• A LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF FASTENERS AND FIXINGS
  USED TO HOLD WORLDS MOST ICONIC STRUCTURES.

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Ever wondered, what it takes to build and to hold
together those gigantic structures and objects we
see around us every day?
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We have compiled a list of renowned structures
and how many fasteners in form of nuts, bolts or
rivets were used to hold these megastructures
together.
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Airbus A380 Lets start with the largest
double-deck, wide-body, and four-engine
commercial jet airliner, the Airbus A380. The
jetliner is built with six million individual
parts and guess what, half of those parts are
rivets i.e. 3 million rivets.
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Titanic The ship was built using over whooping 3
million iron and steel rivets, weighing in at
1,200 tons. Unfortunately, in one of the many
researches on Titanic, researchers found, rivets
also played some role in the sinking of this
iconic passenger liner.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge The Sydney Harbour Bridge
also known as the Coathanger is one of the
biggest steel structures around the globe.
Completed in 19 January 1932, it took more than 6
million steel rivets to hold together one of the
most iconic image of Sydney, and Australia.
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Golden Gate Bridge One of the most
internationally recognized symbols of the United
States, the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is
held together by 1.2 million steel rivets with
approximately 600,000 rivets in each tower.
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Eiffel tower Perhaps the most iconic and most
recognizable structures in the world, the Eiffel
Tower. Not one of the tallest structures of all
time, but since Eiffel Tower is most-visited paid
monument in the world
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Empire State Building Before the Burj Khalifa,
WTC towers, Shanghai Tower or any other modern
skyscraper, there was Empire State Building. The
building was the tallest man made structure for
well over 40 years. There are over a whopping
999,000000000 nine hundred ninety-nine billion
rivets in one of the tallest buildings in the
world.
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Tyne Bridge Located at North East England, Tyne
Bridge is one of the most well-known through Arc
Bridge. It takes over 777,124 rivets to hold the
bridge together.
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Lupu Bridge One of the biggest and the second
large steel arch bridge, the Lupu Bridge is
comprised of tons of steel and approximately
6,000,000 rivets.
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info about worlds tallest steel structures and
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