Recently began to gain popularity a rating scale famous buildings.Certainly each of us has ever come across infographics, which were marked by the size of the different architectural structures relative to each other.Really interesting, what size are modern colossi.Here, for example, that the above - the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower?Let's try to understand this.
Eifel, or How it all began
Alexander Gustave Eiffel had German roots, the name of his ancestors sounded like Bonikhauzen.In Dijon, the region in France, the birthplace of the famous engineer, they moved to the beginning of the XVIII century and immediately after the move changed the name on the Eiffel Tower - a sound was more pleasant to the ear of the French and, accordingly, it is easier to pronounce.It later around the world will be interested to know what the height of the Eiffel Tower - the creation of an engineer, and as a child, no one could see in the future genius Gustave.As a child, he was quite inconspicuous, does not stand out from the crowd of boys Dijon.The childhood of the famous scientists of the past in a beautiful area, where the whole atmosphere was relaxed and a little to stimulate research activity.
Student years
In the province of Dijon, where the family lived engineer, was a high school with a technical angle, it's the young Gustave graduated.After it was decided to send a gifted boy to Paris to try his hand in the admission to the polytechnic school - a very well-known and respected institution of those times.But, alas, Gustave waited failure, though not in the technical disciplines, this had all been excellent.Summed up our hero banal rhetoric.That's what he did not learn to control, although later was a public person.
had to enroll in another institution, called the Paris School of Arts and Crafts.Later, even the great Eiffel confesses that this reversal of fortune for him was very successful, and appreciate the years spent in the school.The main focus of the teachers do to ensure that students develop the ability to create, and all technical issues have been only an auxiliary business.At that time nobody knew that above - the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower, because these buildings at that time did not yet exist.
Early career Eiffel
first work of genius was the site of an assistant in the engineering firm called "Charles Neveu."His employer is very much appreciated and promoted through the ranks.The company produced the bridges.They were at the time was a huge demand, as across the country are actively were laid railroad tracks.Just three years later he became Gustave companion, but wages did not suit him, and was soon followed by the separation from the employer.A man who did not know that the above - the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower, extolled the beauty of the structures made of metal.He was confident that in them is not only strength, but also beauty.The young engineer decided to found his own company and continue to engage in the construction of bridges.
idea of creating masterpieces
so happened that Eiffel had to leave the country for three years.The country began the critics as an engineer and his buildings as he was the first who began to build bridges in a certain way.Engineers had to listen to a lot of unpleasant things.While in France, there have been several landslides railway bridges, which resulted in many victims, and then began a real persecution.
There, in the journey from Gustave and appears the idea of creating the most famous buildings in France.Perhaps, then, the engineer has no idea what will be the height of the Eiffel Tower in meters, but he knew exactly what was to be its design.To create this type of tower was inspired by the genius of the Swiss research doctor who managed to study the structure of a human femur and install: the presence of many hryaschik distributes the load in such a way that it is not able to withstand the bone thick body.As a result, the ingenious ideas appeared the tallest building in the world at that time - the Eiffel Tower.Its construction is designed so brilliant that for more than a century, it did not need major repairs.
«Daughters' Eiffel
What could be common between the Americans and the French?It turns out that the national symbols, the Statue of Liberty, too, was created according to the drawings of the famous Eiffel.Perhaps not everyone knows what the height of the Statue of Liberty.It is 93 meters, but her French sister is much higher - as much as 324 meters.It is still a mystery how one man was able to create such beautiful buildings, which have become symbols of the country.And this is not a noble marble or gold, and of simple metal.No matter what the above - the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower, it is important that Gustave Eiffel created not just design, he created the character era.
