One of my favorite photos from my ongoing research historical audiences: a proto-audience of engineering students, assembled to test weight-bearing structures for stadiums and theaters. C. C. Schneider, “The Structural Design of Buildings.” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Paper No. 997: 442.

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