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Alexandre Gustave Boenickhausen-Eiffel

Alexandre Gustave Boenickhausen-Eiffel. Maisha Bulaya Mrs. Pare/ Geometry/Period: 1 Nov. 10. 2008. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

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Alexandre Gustave Boenickhausen-Eiffel

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  1. Alexandre Gustave Boenickhausen-Eiffel Maisha Bulaya Mrs. Pare/ Geometry/Period: 1 Nov. 10. 2008

  2. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He was born in Dijon, France on December 15, 1832 to Alexandre Eiffel and Catherine Moineuse. Gustave Eiffel graduated from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1855, with a master’s degree in chemistry. He married Marie Gaudelet in 1862 and had five children. Eiffel worked on structures such as a bridge across the Garonne River at Bordeaux, train stations at Toulouse and Agen, and the Garabit Viaduct in southern France, some of which are still standing to this very day. But some of Eiffel's most historic and most-known structures and designs are what makes him so special, his work on the Eiffel tower and the Statue of Liberty.

  3. Ponte Maria Pia Built between, January 1876 and November of 1877, Gustave Eiffel and Théophile Seyrig built the Maria Pia Bridge (Ponte Maria Pia) in Porto, Portugal. Built of wrought iron, was the longest arch bridge at its time in the world. Its two-hinged crescent arch carries the railway line to Lisbon, Portugal for 353m across the Douro River at a height of 160m. The Maria Pia was built mainly of triangles because triangles are the only polygon that cannot be 'squished' without changing the length of one or more sides.

  4. Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty, that was to be given as a gift to the United States by the French people as a sign of international friendship. The copper structure was built in Glatigny, France and completed in July 1884. Eiffel was one of the great minds behind the building of the Statue of Liberty along with Auguste Bartholdi and Richard M. Hunt. Eiffel designed the wrought-iron skeleton for the inside of the Statue of Liberty. He calculated how much pressure would be put on each joint and how to distribute the weight and instructed how to assemble the various pieces of the statue to maximize the safety and life of the standing statue. The Statue of Liberty is 151ft. (without pedestal). On the Statue of Liberty some geometric shapes are isosceles triangles, some lines, and a few other shapes.

  5. Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known structure was the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. Completed on March 31, 1889 by Gustave Eiffel and Stephen Sauvestre who where the main architects, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier were the main engineers, and Jean Compagnon handled the construction of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower stands at 324 meters tall made of 9441 tons of wrought iron. The tower is constructed of triangles, squares, rectangles, lines, and arches. The geometric shapes that contributed to it success was the triangles. Triangles are all over the Eiffel Tower which surrounds other shapes that keeps the polygons from squishing or changing the length of one or more sides.

  6. In many of Gustave Eiffel’s structures (builds, bridges, etc.) I have noticed that he uses a variety of triangles. Especially in the Maria Pia Bridge and the Eiffel Tower, many triangles have been used. I understand why Eiffel used triangles because this three-sided shape is very special. It makes the building or bridge very strong and today you see triangles in many structures. I would really want to meet Gustave Eiffel, the famous man who built the Eiffel Tower. I would really want to me him because I love France and when I visited France I saw the Eiffel Tower and it never occurred to me that someone accurately had to build this complex structure. I couldn’t imagine how much work was put into his famous building. Through thick and thin, Gustave Alexandre Eiffel still came up on top. Through the many accusations about initially charge about the corruption in the 1888 scandal of Ferdinand de Lesseps 's failed Panama Canal project, he is still one of the most famous architects in the world.

  7. Eiffel Tower

  8. Statue of Liberty

  9. Maria Pia Bridge

  10. Bibliography • "Gustave Eiffel." NNDB tracking the entire world. June-July 2003. Nov.-Dec. 2008 http://www.nndb.com/people/425/000031332/ • "Gustave Eiffel." LaTour Eiffel. 2008. Nov.-Dec.2008 <http://www.toureiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/gustave_eiffel.html> • "Gustave Eiffel Biography." Biography Base. Nov.-Dec. 2008 <http://www.biographybase.com/biography/eiffel_gustave.html> • "Gustave Eiffel Biography." Biography Base. Nov.-Dec. 2008 <http://www.biographybase.com/biography/eiffel_gustave.html>. • "Facts about the Eiffel Tower, Paris." Buzzle.com Intelligent Life on the Web. 22 Apr. 2007. Nov.-Dec. 2008 <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-the-eiffel-tower-paris.html>.

  11. Bibliography • "Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Man of Architecture and Perfection." From the Desk of... Nov.-Dec.2008 <http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/2774/eiffel.html>. • "Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Man of Architecture and Perfection." From the Desk of... Nov.-Dec. 2008 <http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/2774/eiffel.html>.

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