Since the span was too wide for builders to use the traditional type of wooden framework that had supported previous domes, Brunelleschi dispensed with framework altogether.

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The Jan. 9 collapse in Queens didn't cause any life-threatening injuries, but three workers had to be extricated from beneath fallen machinery after the 170-foot-long boom fell and mowed down part of the building's wooden framework, according to officials and witnesses.

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