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    On the Eiffel Tower, 72 names of French men (scientists, engineers, and mathematicians) are engraved in recognition of their contributions. Gustave Eiffel...
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    one of the most iconic and recognizable structures in the world, the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889, has been the inspiration for the creation of over...
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    for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue...
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    The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl/ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named...
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  • lists of scientists. Academic genealogy of chemists List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower...
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  • habitable. Similarly, the Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure from 1889, when it was built, but not the tallest building. The skyscraper was invented...
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    was the tallest man made structure in the British Empire. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is the 125th-tallest...
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    entertainment venues in Paris Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe Arc de Triomphe...
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  • The tallest structure in the City of Paris and the Île-de-France remains the Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement, 300 meters high (or 330 m including...
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    history until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889, which is 324 m (1,063 ft) in height. Gregory of Tours writing c. 594, quotes the earlier historian...
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    Timeline of development of world's highest observation deck since inauguration of Eiffel Tower. Higher observation decks have existed on mountain tops or cliffs...
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    Istanbul, Turkey Skyline of Frankfurt, Germany The City of London & Canary Wharf skylines, London, United Kingdom The Eiffel Tower & La Défense skyline,...
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    Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China; The Strat in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States; and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France—are categorized as "towers", which...
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    Henri Tresca (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    such that Gustave Eiffel put his name on number 3 in his list of 72 people making the Eiffel tower in Paris possible. Yield surface von Mises stress Mohr-Coulomb...
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    £15 million. Boris Johnson was believed to want something like the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. At that time there were understood to be five artists...
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    saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the Paris Métro, the completion of the Paris Opera, and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre...
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    Jacques Triger (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    France, where he served for 35 years. Triger's name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. sometimes mistakenly quoted as Jules Triger,...
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    the case in the Eiffel Tower to as low as a few hundred tons. They are built to a higher standard to support the weight of the oil platforms built on...
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    La Défense (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    current height from a previous 159 metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th...
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    structures List of tallest towers List of tallest chimneys List of tallest buildings and structures List of tallest freestanding steel structures List of cities...
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    2022. "Omkar Alta Monte Tower C- CTBUH - the Skyscraper Center". "Eiffel Tower". Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. "Raheja Altimus". CTBUH...
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    Eiffel!". Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 30 September 1964. Retrieved 11 June 2013. "World War One – The Home Front – The Pennant...
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    acres) along the left and right banks of the Seine from the esplanade of Les Invalides to the Eiffel Tower (built for the 1889 Exposition) at the Champ de...
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    Fontenay-sous-Bois in 1884. His name was included as one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower. He was a friend of Jacques Alexandre Bixio. L’Agriculture, les prairies...
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    Henri de Dion (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    of the Eiffel Tower. For his contributions to its construction, de Dion was honored by being listed as one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower. The 72...
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    Louis Didier Jousselin (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    during the Siege of Hamburg in 1813. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Louis Didier Jousselin was born at Blois on 1 April...
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  • on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the...
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    was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. In a classical...
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  • Judith (2011). The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt: 300 BC – AD 700. Yale University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0300170948. "Tallest shot tower". Guinness...
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    Louis Clément François Breguet (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Legion d'Honneur in 1877. He is one of the 72 French scientists whose names are written around the base of the Eiffel Tower. Breguet was married and had one...
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