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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born in France, in the Côte-d'Or, the first child of Catherine-Mélanie (née Moneuse) and Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel. [6] He was a descendant of Marguerite Frédérique (née Lideriz) and Jean-René Bönickhausen, who had emigrated from the German town of Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. [7]
The Garabit viaduct (French: viaduc de Garabit) is a railway arch bridge spanning the Truyère, near Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region. The bridge was constructed between 1882 and 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, with structural engineering by Maurice Koechlin, [1] and was opened in 1885. It is 565 m (1,854 ft ...
Maria Pia Bridge (in Portuguese Ponte de D. Maria Pia, commonly known as Ponte de Dona Maria Pia) is a railway bridge built in 1877 and attributed to Gustave Eiffel.It is situated between the Portuguese Northern municipalities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia.
It was designed by the French engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel's 343 m (1,125.3 ft) bridge was primarily a railway bridge, carrying the line from Mechelen to Terneuzen. However, beside the railway line, on each side of it, was a toll path for pedestrians and their animals. [3]
Gustave Eiffel's viaduct at Vecchio. In 1877 it was decided to build a metre-gauge railway in Corsica, despite the very difficult terrain it would have to cross. [1] Legislation was passed on 4 August 1879 for the construction of the railway. [2] The first lines opened on 1 August 1888 [2] between Bastia and Corte and also between Ajaccio and ...
A view of the Eiffel bridge from inside. In 1873, masonry works had started on the right bank. [33] In 1879, Gustave Eiffel, who had waited more than ten years for a positive response to his project, took in hand the large undertaking in Cubzac, which finished in 1883. [33] The Cubzac bridge is the most important roadwork by the Eiffel company ...
In 1879, Gustave Eiffel made a documented visit to Pănculescu's house in Vălenii de Munte, in what is today the Nicolae Iorga Memorial Museum, [1] where he was shown the technology used by Pănculescu for the construction of his railway line. Eiffel himself documented Pănculescu's contribution in his work titled 'Communication sur les ...
François Gustave Théophile Seyrig (19 February 1843 – 5 July 1923) was a German-born French engineer, best known for designing bridges. On 6 October 1868, he founded Eiffel and Company with Gustave Eiffel. Seyrig contributed to the Eiffel and Company project to build the Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Portugal, which was finished in 1877 ...