1. GREAT EXHIBITION, PARIS - 1889 The exhibition of 1889 centred around the Eiffel Tower, which Eiffel and his engineers had raised on the bank of Seine in the short space of 17 months. The exhibition buildings were spread out behind the tower. There were 2 wings, one housing the beaux-arts and the other the arts liberaux, which were joined together by a section devoted to general exhibits. The immense material bulk of the Galerie des Machines rose in the background to dominate the whole complex.
3. GREAT EXHIBITION, PARIS - 1889 Reverse Spanning Arches Span – 115 metre Height – 45 metre Length – 420 metre Composed of 20 trusses A section of these trusses was about 5 times as deep as it was wide (3.5 m. deep by 75 cm wide). The eye of the contemporary onlooker was confused by these strange dimensions.
5. GUSTAVE EIFFEL (1832 – 1923) • Training from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Centrale. • Made the calculations for the arches of the Galerie des Machines of 1867. • The glass walls of the large entrance hall of the International Exhibition of 1878. • The marvellously lit Bon Marche departmental store in Paris in 1876. • Numerous elegantly poised iron bridges. • Iron skeleton structure for the Statue of Liberty in 1886. • Tower at the 1889 Exhibition.
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7. GARABIT VIADUCT (1880-84) Total Span – 500 metre Span over River – 165 metre over a gorge 122.5 metre wide
