It never passes unperceived, although that which built it barrel as small as it is large. It caused the most vertiginous enthusiasm and the lowest insults. But it defies the lightning, folds of 12 cm under the hurricane and does not break: the returned sun, it grows of 15 cm. It launched the "Newspaper spoken" before guiding the planes and the police force. The whole world knows that it is about the Eiffel tower. In 1887, old cinquante-cinq years, Gustave Eiffel, engineer of the central School of arts and manufactures, enjoyed the consideration which a brilliant career gets. At its time, the idea to raise a giant tower already worried the spirits since strong a long time, but the resources of masonry had never made it possible to carry out this dream: the highest construction of the world, the tower Antonelliana Mole, in Turin, did not exceed 170 m height. The technique of metal was going to modify the facts of the case. In 1833, already, an English engineer had conceived the plans of an openwork cast iron column of 1 000 feet top (304,80 m), 30 m at the base and 3,60 m at the top. For the Exposure of Philadelphia, in 1874, two Americans proposed to draw up of the same an iron cylinder height, 9 m in diameter, maintained by stays...
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