Who is known as the inventor of skyscrapers?

Who is known as the inventor of skyscrapers?

While “the Bessemer process” kept Bessemer’s name well-known, lesser-known today is the man who employed that process to create the first skyscraper and is often considered as the inventor of modern skyscrapers and construction.

It’s George A. Fuller (1851-1900)⬆️, an American architect. 

Throughout the 19th century, construction techniques had called for outside walls to carry the load of a building’s weight. 

Fuller, however, had a different idea. He realized that buildings could bear more weight—and therefore soar higher—if he used Bessemer steel beams to give buildings a load-bearing skeleton on the inside of the building. 

In 1889, Fuller erected the Tacoma Building⬆️, a successor to the Home Insurance Building that became the first structure ever built where the outside walls did not carry the weight of the building. 

Fuller developed a technique for creating steel cages that would be used in subsequent skyscrapers.

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