Eiffel: The Genius Who Reinvented Himself

Product Group: Book
Publisher: The History Press Ltd (2004-10-14)
ISBN: 0750933089
EAN: 9780750933087
Dewy Decimal #: 624.092
Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Engineering Giant
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Date: 2004-12-13
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful

We owe Eiffel a great debt just for his Paris tower, but who has heard of his stupendous viaduct at Garabit? His works should be more widely know and this new biography goes some way down that path. It is a well researched book, and exposes much about him as a methodical and systematic engineer who created structures of outstanding beauty and integrity. And he cared about the workers who actually built his designs, a rarity in Victorian times. The book can be criticised for being too brief about his achievements, especially the engineering principles which guided him through his career. And the illustrations are frustratingly sparse and unimaginative for his creations. Some of the early works, for example, are the dramatic viaducts on the Gannat railway, and surely deserve modern pictures (they are still standing and still carrying trains). The book deserves a wide readership, but the defintive bio of Eiffel has yet to be written.

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