Quotes by Gustave Eiffel - Page 1

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Flags
Staff
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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Engineering
Perfect
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Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Europe
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There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Men
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Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Engineering
Thinking
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It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Bridges
Country
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The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
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Curves
Wind
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Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.
Gustave Eiffel / Civil Engineer
Art
Science
Beautiful
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