1930s' Man marking his lonely territory by pissing out stone and metal monuments to his hubris ?

By the 1930s, two vital things were clear to all those with a even a halfway decent science education (architects and engineers for example).

(A) the observable Universe was 99.9% plasma (hot electrically and magnetically active gas).

(B) the heavier atoms that produced Humanity's familiar solid rocks and metals were a very small percentage of the .1% remaining.

The previous "Appeal to Nature" claim that 'Nature's Progress led inevitably to the domination of the big, the massive, the visible and the solid' was now shown to be totally totally wrong.

Technological Man exalts the Big same time Science says Universe dominated by the small

In the 1930s peer-reviewed science increasingly revealed that solid (metal atom-oriented) planets like Earth actually represented a blindingly small slice of one percent of even the visible Universe, a visible universe that mostly consisted of tiny bits of  non-solid non metallic vapourware (plasma gas).

But at the exact same moment in time, popular science and technology media culture was at its apogee of exalting all the biggest, fastest, tallest etc examples of the (solid) (metallic) Man-made world.

And the public couldn't get enough of it.

Coincidence ?