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Yeah, why did they go through all that effort to build the Eiffel tower?
by malfist 1mo ago
Yeah, why did they go through all that effort to build the Eiffel tower?
- billynomates 1mo agoIt honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
- ralfd 1mo agoFurthermore: The Eiffel Tower was planned to be temporary, it only still stands because it was used as a radio tower.
- whythismatters 1mo ago>planned to be temporary Same for the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.
- anon48293 1mo agoThen they probably shouldn’t have used a stable atom..
- uniq7 1mo agoI wonder if Stonehenge was only for demonstrating some tribe's engineering capabilities too
- jimnotgym 1mo agoYet if an archaeologist excavated it with no knowledge of that, like everything that is not clearly a house, it would be chalked down as a 'ritual site'
- Gravityloss 1mo agoSelfie geolocation
- irishcoffee 1mo agoI realize that was tongue in cheek, but what I found more interesting is that is was only to stand for 20 years and was initially set to be demolished in 1909. So your question is even more amusing as the thing was only supposed to be temporary.
- ButlerianJihad 1mo agoSince it was part of a World's Fair, it is unsurprising today that the Eiffel Tower was slated for demolition. I grew up very near to Balboa Park, and it was rather late in life that I learned that all those buildings were sort of hastily erected for the Panama–California Exposition, 110 years ago, and they were expected to be demolished quickly, or decay, because they were never intended for permanent habitation. And so the intervening years have been a saga of very industrious preservation and restoration, as most all of the buildings have been deemed to be architectural marvels and very much worth keeping around.
- irishcoffee 1mo agoWas it unsurprising at the planning stages?
- DarmokTanagra 1mo agoThe eiffel tower will be gone long before stonehenge.
- Levitating 1mo agoTo serve as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair exposition.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)