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Quote Originally Posted by Jayjami View Post
Until the Astrodome was built, the Pantheon in Rome had the largest dome in the world. It has lasted 2000 years. The Astrodome won’t make it a 100!
Uhhh… The dome of the Florence Cathedral, built during the Italian Renaissance, has a wider interior than the Pantheon by 2 feet.
The Florence Cathedral is made with iron chain rings in/outside concrete, used for compression and reinforcement. The Parthenon had no iron, only concrete, which made it the largest concrete un-reinforced dome. None of this has anything to do with the Astrodome, but its why the Parthenon had a certain claim to a thing. The Astrodome was a marvel of changing technologies, but is transient in comparison.

Historic nonetheless.