Still Waters Posted March 16 #1 Share Posted March 16 (IP: Staff) · In 2019, a fire broke out inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, severely damaging the iconic medieval building. However, the catastrophic fire gave researchers an opportunity to study the building's architecture like never before. A few months after the inferno was extinguished, researchers discovered that the stones used to build the Gothic-style cathedral were held together using iron staples, a technique that had never been documented before in a building from this time period, according to a study published March 15 in the journal PLOS One.. Notre Dame was constructed in multiple phases starting in the early 12th century and continuing for the next 300 years, according to the Notre Dame Cathedral website. https://www.livescience.com/notre-dame-is-held-together-by-a-first-of-its-kind-iron-skeleton-catastrophic-fire-revealed https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article? https://notredamecathedralparis.com/ 5 4 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pellinore Posted March 16 #2 Share Posted March 16 (edited) Interesting, but maybe a high-risk technique? If the iron rusted it could cause the stone to split, though perhaps the stones were too massive. It sometimes causes stone mullioned windows to fail. The same stapling method was used here:Metal staples in the construction of the central building of the Belvoir fortress (Kokhav Ha Yarden, Israel) (openedition.org) Edited March 16 by pellinore 3 2 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ell Posted March 16 #3 Share Posted March 16 Quote Mystery Of Ancient Metal Clamps – Advanced Lost Technology Modern Science Still Cannot Explain 3 2 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cho Jinn Posted March 21 #4 Share Posted March 21 If only they’d let us know who started the fire… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L Palmer Posted March 23 #5 Share Posted March 23 What I'm afraid of is how modern Parisians will build the cathedral back. Will it be a monument to God, or a monument to the current sociopolitical zeitgeist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccr8 Posted March 24 #6 Share Posted March 24 21 hours ago, C L Palmer said: What I'm afraid of is how modern Parisians will build the cathedral back. Will it be a monument to God, or a monument to the current sociopolitical zeitgeist? Hi C L I would think that like most restorations it will be to brought back to it’s original state. 4 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted March 24 #7 Share Posted March 24 (edited) 42 minutes ago, jmccr8 said: Hi C L I would think that like most restorations it will be to brought back to it’s original state. Cue, the one and only Lucy Worsley... It is all coming back together famously ... Unless the French themselves decides to burn it down again Quote [00.58:55] ~ Edited March 24 by SHaYap meh 2 2 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L Palmer Posted April 19 #8 Share Posted April 19 On 3/24/2023 at 9:25 AM, jmccr8 said: Hi C L I would think that like most restorations it will be to brought back to it’s original state. I certainly hope so. I simply fear that like many things in modern society it will be imbued with some divisive political message. 1 Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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