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On the Eiffel Tower, 72 names of French men (scientists, engineers, and mathematicians) are engraved in recognition of their contributions. [1] Gustave Eiffel chose this "invocation of science" because of his concern over the protests against the tower, and chose names of those who had distinguished themselves since 1789. [2]
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 after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed " La dame de fer " (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed ...
Known for. Archery, commitment ceremony to the Eiffel Tower, Objectum sexuality. Spouse. the Eiffel Tower (m. 2007) Erika Eiffel (née LaBrie; born 1972), also known as Aya, is an American competitive archer and advocate for object sexuality. She "married" the Eiffel Tower [1][2][3] in a commitment ceremony in 2007.
Lovers and the Eiffel Tower: 1928: Private collection Image online [140] La danse: 1928: Private collection Image online [141] The Cat Transformed into a Woman: 1928 to 1931: London, Tate Modern: Image online [142] Fruits and Flowers: 1929: Private collection Image online [143] The Rooster: 1930 to 1939: Image online [144] [145] Time – the ...
The final design called for 18,000 pieces of puddle iron and an incredible 2.5 million rivets. Admittedly, that sounds a lot more difficult than the 3D Eiffel Tower puzzle we had as kids.. 4. The ...
Marie-Sophie Germain (French: [maʁi sɔfi ʒɛʁmɛ̃]; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss ...
An editor is adding the name of Pierre Curie to the list of people not on the tower. I am removing it. Pierre was not well-enough known at the time to have been considered. A list of scientists not on the tower could be very large. The editor said Ironically, his student and wife was more famous than him: Marie Curie.
The Exposition Universelle of 1889 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fifth of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. [a] It attracted more than thirty-two million ...