JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

This I believe is the eighth installment of a series of posts on articles using infographics comparing objects to buildings and skylines. Ships are often seen this way–comparing the newest/largest to some well-known building in, usually, the NYC skyline. There are variations: for example, nail and salt production are depicted as enormous single objects showing that if you combined all nails made in the U.S. into one 100′ diameter nail, it would be as big as the Singer Building, or some such. The current example is the first I’ve found where the gigantic production item encloses the building against which it is being compared, showing the  size of famous structures relative to all of the glass of a particular sort had they been manufactured and produced as one single unit. This makes for a striking non-sequitur object, and gets the intended point across of how large the various glass manufacturing industries are