Eiffel , one of the other contributions he had made before the Eiffel Tower was working on the Statue of Liberty.
Eiffel was like, eh, it's tall, but it doesn't really do anything.
Tour Eiffel is also a pure engineering thought.
The Eiffel Tower actually, in many ways, did propel the advancement of engineering.
But Eiffel , to his credit, didn't tell them to stop working on the idea.
But Eiffel saw this and had the same complaint that he had to his two young engineers when he saw this.
When Eiffel proposed the tower idea to the Parisian World's Fair committee, they accepted it, which we all know.
Before the Eiffel Tower, there were limits on what we thought was possible.
After the Eiffel Tower, lots of other similar structures start to be built.
was responsible for the Eiffel Tower.
And the Eiffel Tower's an interesting example.
Some of what Eiffel became-- at least in his profession was famous for, was developing techniques for using wrought iron more efficiently and more effectively.
you mentioned Gwen Eiffel who I just you know was a really wonderful person I didn't know her that well but I had
And the Eiffel Tower is a remarkable place.
But the Eiffel Tower itself records much of that.
that is Eiffel thank you so much for coming I live in West Oakland which was once a thriving working-class black
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower!
So you bring a photo of the Eiffel Tower in front of them, they say, wow, what is that?
And it was this one in the Eiffel Tower.
So everyone's heard of the Eiffel Tower.
This is not literally what Eiffel said.
So what you see here-- so Eiffel 's only known, really, in most of the Western world for one product, for one thing.
he couldn't see the Eiffel Tower.
But if you stand on the Eiffel Tower and you survey the beautiful view of Paris, and I kind of do this in the preface,
It has more steel than the whole Eiffel Tower in there.
These recurring themes of sizzling shrimp and Eiffel Tower.
recognized at the top of the Eiffel Tower I was uh I was summoned by PA to the bridge of the Staten Island Ferry
Well, the Eiffel Tower pass back and forward, you know the example?
Let's take a really obvious landmark like the Eiffel Tower.
Well, the Eiffel Tower had to begin with plans.
This bridge is tall enough that you could fit the Eiffel Tower underneath it.
Normally kirigami is used to make things like the Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building, something like that.
And also, from Eiffel 's point of view, it's not even really that interesting to look at.
If you think of the final design of the Eiffel Tower, the bottom has those beautiful arches.
Yay, the Eiffel Tower exists.
The tower, the Eiffel Tower.
This is one of the first buildings that Eiffel worked on, one of his first projects.
Eiffel was a businessman.
I get to sell baguettes when people get inside the Eiffel Tower.
Everything I showed you, Eiffel 's work, Doug Engelbart, da Vinci, when you look at it from a broad perspective, what were they all doing?
It has this same amount of iron as the Eiffel Tower, for example.
Now, the Eiffel Tower-- that's it pictured in 1789-- the Eiffel Tower was for 40 years, the tallest building in the world.
Now, Eiffel only had a 20 year lease on the site.
So there's plenty of science that went on in the Eiffel Tower.
It was found on the top of the Eiffel Tower in 1903 when radiation had been discovered in Paris, of course,
So that's another reason why it's worth visiting the Eiffel Tower.
And you see them in front of the Eiffel Tower in all these nice clothes that they don't own.
They turn off the lights that illuminate the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building in New York.
way it wasn't feasible to design or build the Eiffel Tower prior to Eiffel 's development of analytic techniques for designing and analyzing those types of structures.
So is, like you mentioned before la Tour Eiffel .