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“Wonder” is a relative tern.
One must consider time and environment when assessing man’s achievements and attempting to identify "man-made wonders.”
Pointed spears and simple tools were "wonders” for the Indians who inhabited the Northern Piedmont 12,000 years ago. Today, such devices would pale in comparison with architecture and technology — modem "wonders” —at Dulles International Airport.
With that in mind, Arundel Newspapers reporters attempted to identify the seven man-made wonders of Virginia’s Northern Piedmont. Advisors for this selection were too numerous to mention. They included historians, state senators and delegates, highway engineers, local members of boards of supervisors, newspaper editors and reporters, lawyers, doctors, athletic coaches, real estate agents, veterinarieans and others who travel the region.
Last week’s article offered an assessment of the region’s natural wonders. This week, we consider manmade wonders.
In the final analysis, man’s ingenuity is the "wonder" which has enabled him to survive and prosper in the Northern Piedmont.
Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County.
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?” — William Law in A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 17t8.
What would Law say today if he saw Dulles International Airport, man’s temple to flight?
When it opened in 1962, the world’s first civil airport planned for the age of jets and jumbo jets, it was a vision from the 21st century. It looked nothing like National, the overcrowded airport across the Potomac from the capital; rather it appeared to have been brought back by time machine from 100 years in the future and dropped into rural Loudoun County near the dot on the map labeled Chantilly.
The airport was first authorized to be built in 1960 but a decade of squabbles over its location delayed the start of construction. Impetus for a decision came in
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