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IN France the manufacture of miniature of a city or a building is important not only to become one of the interesting tourist attraction. For example in Moses © e des Plans-Reliefs in the Hotel des Invalides, a variety of miniature collection here was originally created for military purposes. All of these military miniature collection declared as historical monument in 1927, and the museum was founded in 1943. The models you can see in this museum gives special attention to the fortress city and topographic features such as hills, harbors, and so forth.
Approximately 260-relief plan that was made between 1668 and 1870 represent approximately 150 sites. Approximately 100 models are now preserved by the museum and about 15 collections stored in Moses © e des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
Currently, Moses © e des Plans-Reliefs relief plan showing 28 forts along the English Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean coast, and the Pyrenees. Musee des Plans-Reliefs or military model of the museum was originally founded in 1668 when Francois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois and war minister to Louis XIV, began to collect three-dimensional model of the walled city for military purposes, known as a plans-reliefs. Read the rest of this entry »
La Tour Eiffel or the Eifel tower is the most prominent buildings in the city of Paris there are field Champ de Mars beside the River Seine and is known as a symbol of France. The Eiffel Tower was built as a gateway l’Exposition of 1889, a World’s Fair that coincides with 100 years of the French Revolution. Construction of the tower began in 1887, was inaugurated March 31, 1889 and opened to the public on May 6. His name was taken from a designer, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
The tower has a height of 300 meters with about 7300 tons of structural steel. The wind can cause the tower was shaking as much as 6-7 cm and heat can cause the top of the tower up to 18 cm away from the sun. There are television antenna height above 24 m. Eiffel Tower holds the record for the tallest building for 40 years.
Three hundred workers, in cooperation arrange 18.038 pieces of steel, using two and a half million nail clamp that was previously designed by Maurice Koechlin. Risk of accidents during construction period is very large. Workmanship is very dangerous because the building structure itself can be overcome by Gustave Eiffel by an act of prevention / tight security and only eat one orang.Ketika victims of this tower began to work, many people are surprised and criticized, that this building is too brave, to try and not artsy. Plus criticism addressed to Gustave Eiffel, known as a bridge engineer, he does not understand the aerodynamics of wind would hit the tower. Read the rest of this entry »