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It honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
by billynomates 26d ago
It honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
- ralfd 26d agoFurthermore: The Eiffel Tower was planned to be temporary, it only still stands because it was used as a radio tower.
- whythismatters 26d ago>planned to be temporary Same for the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.
- anon48293 22d agoThen they probably shouldn’t have used a stable atom..
- uniq7 26d agoI wonder if Stonehenge was only for demonstrating some tribe's engineering capabilities too
- jimnotgym 22d 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'