The fifteen-story, 153-foot tall Tower was built on the principle of the cantilever: the reinforced concrete slab floors are horizontal extensions from a central “taproot” core, the base of which extends more than fifty feet into the earth below. The Research Tower is one of the tallest structures ever built on the cantilever principle and was home to the invention of many of SC Johnson’s landmark products.
The Research Tower has 15 floors and more than 7,000 Pyrex glass tubes are featured throughout the Tower to construct the building’s numerous windows. If the glass tubes in the Tower were laid end to end they would span 17 miles, roughly the size of 586 stacked Research Towers.
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The fifteen-story, 153-foot tall Tower was built on the principle of the cantilever: the reinforced concrete slab floors are horizontal extensions from a central “taproot” core, the base of which extends more than fifty feet into the earth below. The Research Tower is one of the tallest structures ever built on the cantilever principle and was home to the invention of many of SC Johnson’s landmark products.
The Research Tower has 15 floors and more than 7,000 Pyrex glass tubes are featured throughout the Tower to construct the building’s numerous windows. If the glass tubes in the Tower were laid end to end they would span 17 miles, roughly the size of 586 stacked Research Towers.
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