Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 97
ntial people in Paris—authors, painters, architects, and others protesting with great energyagainst the modern Tower of Babel, which was, as they said, to disfigureand profane the noble stone buildings of Paris by the monstrosities of amachine maker, etc. etc. The Eiffel Tower is now constructed,… … Fig. ibb.—The Eiffel Tower in course of co7istruction. The tower rests on four independent foundations, each at the angle of asquare of about 330 feet in the side, and it may be noted that the twofoundations near the Seine had to be differently treated from the othertwo, where a bed of gravel 18…
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