They had to know what materials to use, which alloys, load bearing weight of the materials, how to place and configure them, etc.
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It seems weird in the modern era, I get it. But the real, honest to goodness truth of it is that people can do any math that a computer can do. It just takes longer.
So all that science and metallurgy you’re imagining they needed to do that seems impossible without modern technology. They just did it, paper, pencil, and slide rule.
Fun side note on this, the original meaning of the word “computer” was a title for an actual person that an architect or engineer or anyone would pass off the math problems to. It was a job title before it was a noun that meant “machine”.
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