Download or read book Eiffel written by David I Harvie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the story of Gustave Eiffel, this book examines the conception, and controversial construction of the tower that bears his name, one of the most famous tall buildings in the world. Just at the point of his greatest success, he signed contracts for the project which was to bring scandal on his name - the Panama Canal.

Download or read book Gustave Eiffel written by Henri Loyrette and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Eiffel Tower and the civil engineer/architect who built it. This work also covers the tower's influence on society and its impact on architecture, engineering, the arts, etc.

Download or read book Babel in Russian and Other Literatures and Topographies written by Martin Meisel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the biblical Tower of Babel story, a cautionary tale that accounts for the diversity of languages and peoples. The author pursues its linking of language, architecture, and society as well as its relevance in art and literature over centuries. To come to terms with a perceived disorder in the realm of language, alternative explanations and projects for remediation abound. The disorder and diversity themselves find expression in art, literature, and philosophical reflection and caused the emergence of a historical linguistics. The ambition of the builders—with its social and organizational premise—reemerges in both political and material form as cities, states, and monumental constructions. Utopian aspirations and linguistic claims permeate both revolutionary notions of universality and the romantic essentialism of the nation state. These in turn provoke dystopian critique in literature and film. As Martin Meisel reveals in this study, the wrestle with language in its recalcitrant instability and imperfect social function enters into dialogue with the celebration of its diversity, elasticity, and creativity.

Download or read book A Dream of Stone written by Michael D. Garval and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With democratization of fame in the wake of the French Revolution, writers enjoyed ever greater celebrity status. But in nineteenth-century France, the availability and perceived impermanence of such renown cheapened it, and prompted longing for enduring fame, exemplified by monuments - commemorative sculptural or architectural works, helping a nation in flux define itself, its past, and anticipated future. Within this cultural climate, there evolved an ideal of great writers and their work as immortal, that envisioned literary greatness through the metaphor of monuments and monumentality. study draws upon wide-ranging evidence, from journalism to poetry, caricature to statuary. Focusing on the lives, work, and fame of Honore de Balzac, George Sand, and Victor Hugo, it uncovers the salient features, and traces the rise and fall of this monumentalizing vision of literary greatness, largely forgotten today yet so central to nineteenth-century French culture. North Carolina State University.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electric Airplanes and Drones written by Kevin Desmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s, when the advent of lightweight materials, more efficient solar power, improved engines and the Li-Po (lithium polymer) battery opened the skies to a wide variety of electric aircraft. The author describes the diverse designs of modern electric flying machines--from tiny insect-styled drones to stratospheric airships--and explores developing trends, including flying cars and passenger airliners.

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Download or read book Charles Garnier and Gustave Eiffel on the French and Italian Rivieras written by Charles Garnier and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publié à l'occasion de l' exposition "Le rêve de la raison, l'observatoire astronomique de Nice", présentée en 2005 à Nice puis à Marseille sur les bâtiments conçus et réalisés sur la Côte d'Azur et la Riviera italienne par les architectes Charles Garnier ou Gustave Eiffel.

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Download or read book Structural Iron and Steel 1850 1900 written by Robert Thorne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the second great period of developments in iron construction from 1850, following its establishment as a structural material described in volume 9 of this series. Using the Crystal Palace of 1851 as a starting-point, the papers trace the history of iron-frame construction in Britain, France and America, and show its importance in fireproof construction, and in lattice truss and arch bridge design. A final group of papers illustrates the emergence of steel in framed buildings in both Britain and America. The selection brings out the important and daring contribution of individual engineers in their use of this material.

Download or read book Design and Culture written by Maurice Barnwell and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes. It looks to the past to prepare for the future and is the first book to offer an innovative transdisciplinary design history that integrates multidisciplinary sources of knowledge into a mindful whole. It shows design as a process that expresses goals through values and beliefs, functioning as a major factor in contemporary cultural life. Starting with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the book focuses on the evolution of design and culture in the twentieth century to predict where design will go in the future. Given the major social and political shifts currently unfolding across the globe, and the resulting changing demographics and environmental degradation, Design and Culture encourages collaboration and communication between disciplines to prepare for the future of design in a rapidly changing world.

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Download or read book The Eiffel Tower written by Joëlle Bolloch and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of its construction in 1887 until the flag was raised on the lightning rod at the top in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was a magnet for eager photographers. This landmark was photographed over and over again throughout the building process. Louis-Emile Durandelle's pictures, structured by tracery, triangles and pyramids, emphasize the Tower's form, while Henri Rivi, re produced tightly-composed high and low-angle shots of men working on the girders. Alongside them is the work of many other professional and amateur photographers documenting the Tower's journey to completion and beyond. Around 1905, from a balcony in the Avenue du Trocad, ro, Gabriel Lopp, captured the tower striped with lightning flashes on a stormy night. In the 1930s, its geometrical forms inspired the near-abstract shots of German photo-journalist Else Thalemann. In the 1923 surreal classic Paris qui dort Ren, Clair placed his characters at the very top of the tower; he made a documentary about the landmark six years lat