The Tallest TowerNewly updated history of the Eiffel Tower by a veteran international journalist, with photographs, bibliography, index. Chronicles the tower's design, construction and the historical context that made it a worldwide icon. Interesting story, interestingly told, wrote The New York Times. |
Contents
A Fair for France I | 13 |
Glorious Times for Engineers | 21 |
Master Builder in Iron | 29 |
The Tower Rises | 41 |
Technical Challenge | 65 |
Gloire à Monsieur Eiffel | 75 |
Fair Star | 87 |
World on Display ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Scandal of Scandals | 123 |
Careers Creative End | 133 |
La Grande Dame | 149 |
Comedy and Tragedy | 163 |
Universal Symbol | 175 |
Epilogue | 191 |
Bibliography | 197 |
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19th century American Arch of Triumph arches architecture artists aviation began Belle Epoque beneath Braibant bridge builder building cabin cables cafe Carnot Champ de Mars City of Paris climb Collection Tour Eiffel columns construction Corbusier cranes cylinder Dame Eiffel Tower electric elevators Elysée Elysée Palace engineer exhibits Exposition of 1889 fair's feet Ferdinand de Lesseps Figaro fin de siècle France France's French Garabit German girders Gustave Eiffel height industrial iron L'Exposition de Paris later Le Corbusier Le Figaro Lesseps light Lockroy Machinery Hall masonry metal miles million minister Monsieur Eiffel monument Morlaine nearly official Otis Parisians Pierre Tirard piers piston Poncetton President railway restaurants Revolution River rivets scandal second level second platform SNTE documentation structure suicide symbol tall tallest third platform thousand-foot tower tons Tour de Trois Trocadéro Trois Cents Mètres trusswork Unisphere visitors wind workers World's Fair York