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Originally Posted by Dac150
You have mis-understood my points big time:
1. I never said the Reliance building was the first skyscraper. I said it was the first building to use the concept of steel construction (notice I say building, NOT skyscraper). I then went on to say that the Flatiron or the Woolworth buildings were the first sksycrapers.
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Well OK, whatever way you want to massage it. The Reliance was not the first building to use the "concept" of steel - whatever that was. In most greatly simplified versions of the story, it was the first building to exploit the steel frame as a design device to the point of bothering the public.
Woolworth and Flatiron were two of the first buildings to exploit the steel frame's potential to gain incredible height. Perhaps that's your definition of a skyscraper. But this is not the generally accepted version of what a skyscraper is.