Gallery of Machines | building, Paris, France | Britannica (original) (raw)

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architectural design

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  In Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass
  In the Palais des Machines (at the 1889 exhibition) by Ferdinand Dutert and Victor Contamin, a series of three-hinged trussed arches sprang from small points across a huge space, 385 feet (117 metres) long and 150 feet (45 metres) high. Similar spaces had already been created in…
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construction

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  In construction: Introduction of steel building technology
  …the Eiffel Tower and the Gallery of Machines. Gustave Eiffel’s tower was 300 metres (1,000 feet) high, and its familiar parabolic curved form has become a symbol of Paris itself; its height was not exceeded until the topping off of the 318.8-metre- (1,046-foot-) tall Chrysler Building in New York City…
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design by Eiffel

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  In Gustave Eiffel
  …and designed the lofty, arched Gallery of Machines for the Paris Exhibition of 1867. In 1877 he bridged the Douro River at Oporto, Port., with a 525-foot (160-metre) steel arch, which he followed with an even greater arch of the same type, the 540-foot (162-metre) span Garabit viaduct over the…
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