In 1930, the 11,000-ton Indiana Bell Telephone Company Building in Indianapolis was rotated 90 degrees and moved 52 feet south without disrupting daily operations or the 600 employees inside. This historic engineering feat was achieved by maintaining all utility connections with flexible piping and moving the structure at a painstaking pace of 15 inches per hour. | History In Pictures

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2M views · 4.3K reactions | 5 quirky details to spot at the Barbican! It is a building complex constructed on a World War Two bombsite containing 2000 flats, arts centre, library, multiple schools and more. . . . . . #london #londonhistory #livinglondonhistory #thebarbican #thebarbicancentre #barbicanconservatory #hiddenlondon #secretlondon #architecture #architecturelovers #modernism #postwararchitecture | Living London History | Facebook