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MONUMENTS
TO ENGRAVE A SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY CLASS _______
AND SEE How a Monument is Built _ _________ MUSEUM PROGRAMS
THE CHURCH ON THE HILL (Overlooks the Museum) THE DESIGN See the Museum 2011
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President Reagan
Thomas P. O'Neil, Jr. Former Speaker House of Representatives
General E. C. Meyer Chief of Staff 1981 U.S. Army
General C.C. Krulak Commandant of the Marine Corps ________________
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MUSEUM OF HISTORY IN GRANITE
How a Granite Museum-Wall TM is Built
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Each monument (Granite Museum-Wall ™) is one hundred feet long and designed by structural engineers to endure four thousand years.
There are no guarantees, only time will tell.
1,960 cubic feet of 3,000 psi concrete are poured
over 5945 pounds of knitted steel installed in a three-foot deep trench.
The monument is faced with 60 panels of Missouri Red granite, each weighing
477 pounds, and two triangular granite end pieces each weighing 351 pounds.
Historic text, names and family panels, are
engraved deep in granite.
Drawings are engraved by hand with diamond stylus by the few experts in this esoteric profession.
| TOTAL LENGTH of installed panels (Walk around every monument) | 3064 Feet 934 Meters |
| ESTIMATED_TIME_TO_READ PRESENTLY_ENGRAVED_312_PANELS | 5 Hours | |||||||
| Est.Time to read 912 panels | 15 Hours | |||||||
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WEIGHT OF MONUMENTS YEAR 2008 |
Pounds | Kilos | ||||||
| CONCRETE | 290,080 | 131,855 | ||||||
| STEEL(REBAR) | 5,945 | 2,702 | ||||||
| FITTINGS | 625 | 284 | ||||||
| MISC:Stainlessnuts,bolts,washers,joiners,etc. | 100 | 45 | ||||||
| GRANITE | 29,320 | 13,327 | ||||||
| ONE_MONUMENT | 326,070 | 148,214 | ||||||
| HISTORY OF HUMANITY | 8 monuments (4 of 100 ft and 4 of 67 ft) | 2,173,801 | 988,091 | |||||
| Weight of other 8 monuments | 2,608,561 | 1,185,709 | ||||||
| TOTAL_WEIGHT OF_16_MONUMENTS IN_YEAR_2008 | 4,782,361 | 2,173,801 | ||||||
| OF_WHICH_GRANITE | 430,027 | 195,467 | ||||||
| GRANITE_PANELS | ||||||||
| Rectangular | 880 | |||||||
| Triangular | 32 | |||||||
| TOTAL | 912 | |||||||
| "Anything_worth_doing_cannot_be_accomplished_in_one_lifetime" Reinhold_Niehbur | ||||||||