The Numbers Tell the Story

The construction statistics remain staggering: - 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days from ground-breaking to completion - 18,038 individual iron pieces - 2.5 million rivets - 500 workers at peak construction - 60 tons of paint for the first coat - 1,710 steps to the summit - Only 1 construction fatality (after hours)

But numbers alone cannot capture the human achievement. Workers from over 20 nationalities, speaking a dozen languages, using techniques invented as they built, created something that skeptics said would collapse in the first strong wind.