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Building the Eiffel Tower | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

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Explore the engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark, the tallest structure of its time.

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Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it? Follow the innovations, successes, and failures that made one of the most famous buildings on the planet possible.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

03:21 The Original Plan of the Eiffel Tower

06:31 Building Tall Structures With Wrought Iron

12:27 Aerodynamics of the Eiffel Tower

15:17 Building the Foundation of the Eiffel Tower

23:09 Lesson Learned from Statue of Liberty Construction

28:24 Building the Platforms of the Eiffel Tower

38:00 The Elevator System of the Eiffel Tower

42:27 Various Paint Jobs of the Eiffel Tower

45:35 The Paris World’s Fair 1889

47:30 Making the Eiffel Tower a Permanent Structure

51:20 Conclusion

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