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.

GREAT EXHIBITION, PARIS - 1889

Galerie des Machines

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.

BON MARCHE, PARIS (1876)

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.

BRIDGE OVER RIVER DUORO (1875)

Bridge over River Duoro

• Height above water level – 61 metre

• Built over the river having a varying depth of 14 - 20 metre

• Unstable soil of river bed did not allow any support in form of pile to be built over it.

• Span – 160 metre

GARABIT VIADUCT (1880-84)

Total Span – 500 metre

Span over River – 165 metre over a gorge 122.5 metre wide

GARABIT VIADUCT (1880-84)

STATUE OF LIBERTY (1886)

• Iron skeleton structure for the Statue of Liberty in 1886.

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

Height – 1000 ft. (305 m.)

Height of 3rd floor – 904 ft.

First commercial installation of elevator

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION (1889)

TOWER OF PARIS EXHIBITION