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The Eiffel Tower is 990 feet tall. It is constructed of wrought iron, was built in 1887-89, and was designed by the highly respected engineer Gustave Eiffel. The original design concept for E.T. came from Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nougire, two junior engineers who performed the preliminary calculations.
The tower was almost twice as tall as any other man-made structure that preceeded it. The tallest man-made structures pre-dating E.T. were the Great Pyramids (482 feet), and the Washington Monument (554 feet). The structure was designed to resist lateral wind pressures of 82 PSF near its top and 69 PSF near its base. To put this in perspective, most American and English engineers were designing for lateral wind pressures of 25 to 30 PSF for most of the tallest building and bridge structures constructed during the same era. Many bridge failures occurred in the 1800s due to a complete lack of consideration of any lateral load whatsoever.
It was built in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Just as in current times, E.T. had its detractors. Opponents of the tower's construction referred to Eiffel Tower as a "tragic lamppost", inverted torch-holder", and the "Grand Suppositaire". When first proposed by Eiffel, E.T. was denounced to as an eyesore; "A dishonour to Paris and a ridiculously dizzy tower like some gigantic and sombre factory chimney".
Eiffel tower was constructed at a cost of 7,799,401.31 French francs — about 1 million more than Eiffel's estimate.During the first five months following its completion in 1889, 1.9 million visitors were charged 5 francs for a trip to the top of the tower. Lesser fees were charged for trips to the lower platform levels. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the cost of the tower was recovered in the first year following its completion.The 1889 visitor number stood as a record until tourism increased in the 1960s. In 1988 (the centenary of its construction) a total of 4.5 million people visited tower.
The tower was considered temporary and its demolition was initially planned for in the year 1909. Luckily, wiser minds prevailed and the structure is still standing today. It is one of the great engineering and artisitc feats of mankind. This is especially true when one considers that G. Eiffel was a ground breaker in that very little was known of the lateral force applied to trussed towers by action of the wind.
Source:http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=4758&page=4
Here is what my brother emailed to me.
This is the “true colour version” of the output my three and a half year old nephew produced when asked to write.
First the upper case
Then, the lower case
Then, the numbers. Please ignore the water spillage and coffee stains.
I couldn't access the internet from home for a couple of days because of a password conflict with my ISP.
Without knowing the cause of the problem, I spent whole of last night installing and re-installing windows and tweaking parameters without any avail.
The good part is that I now have a clean installation, upto date versions of all my software.
I've alloted a larger partition to Linux this time. I'll set-up multibooting sometime later. Fedora Core4 has been disappointing. I'm thinking of going back to PCQLinux or trying out Suze.
For now, I'm back on the blog…
http://www.kshitij.com/research/petrol.shtml
Petrol Prices across the World
| Country | $ per Gal. Dec '99 | $ per Gal. Sep '00 | $ per Gal. Jun '05 | $ per Gal. Apr '06 | Rs/ ltr | Deviation from India (%) | % increase over Jun'05 |
| Malaysia | – | 1.32 | 1.94 | – | 18.90 | -61% | – |
| USA | 1.46 | 1.77 | 2.58 | 3.35 | 33.82 | -30% | 30% |
| South Africa | 1.65 | 1.91 | 3.60 | 4.03 | 40.21 | -17% | 12% |
| Pakistan | – | – | 3.53 | 4.33 | 43.73 | -9% | 23% |
| Canada | 2.06 | – | 3.55 | 4.55 | 45.37 | -6% | 28% |
| Australia | 2.18 | 2.32 | 4.47 | 4.80 | 47.93 | -1% | 7% |
| India | 2.62 | 2.62 | 4.63 | 4.79 | 48.32 | – | 3% |
| New Zealand | 1.32 | 2.23 | 4.86 | 4.79 | 48.37 | 0% | -1% |
| Holland | – | – | 7.44 | 72 | 49% | – | |
| UK | 4.41 | 5.08 | 7.61 | 7.87 | 78.46 | 62% | 3% |
| Scotland | – | – | – | 7.96 | 79.37 | 64% | – |
| Germany | 3.45 | – | – | 8.02 | 81.02 | 68% | – |
| Singapore | 3.30 | 3.68 | – | – | – | – | |
| Ireland | 3.69 | 3.77 | – | – | – | – | |
| Thailand | 1.59 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Italy | 3.62 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| France | 3.66 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Japan | 3.92 | – | – | – | – | – |
Hema and Advaita are blessed with a baby girl.
Based on the time of birth names with psyllables ta or ra are to be selected. Radhika, Rasavilasini, Rasamanjari, Ragamallika are under consideration now.
My neice was born at 12:33 PM (11:33 AM, because of day light savings) on 12th of May 2006 at Cinqu Frondi, Regio Calabria, South Italy.
Reggio Calabria (officially Reggio di Calabria, Rìggiu in calabrian dialect, Righi in Greek-Calabrian), is the largest and the oldest city in Calabria, Italy. Located on the toe of the Italian boot, it’s the capital of the province of Reggio Calabria. The city proper has about 200,000 inhabitants, but the population of the urban area is more.Coordinates 38°6′N 15°39′E
The city was founded as Rhegion by Greek settlers in the 8th century BC. During the Roman Empire it was called Rhegium Julii as noble Roman city, later it became Byzantine city, and in th 12th century it became part of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples (13th century).
Reggio Calabria is known as the location of the first dated Hebrew book, a Rashi commentary on the Pentateuch printed in 1475.
Reggio Calabria is located on the Strait of Messina on the other side of which lies the Sicilian city of Messina. The two cities are closely connected, being 20 minutes apart by ferry.
Reggio is the exact center of the Mediterranean Sea.
Reggio Calabria was the hometown of Gianni Versace.
Air supply’s first ever concert in India – I was there.
A joke that made me laugh.
How a BOY withdraws cash from ATM.
1. Park the car
2. Go to ATM Machine
3. Insert card
4. Enter PIN
5. Take money out
6. Take ATM Card out
7. Drive away
How a GIRL withdraws cash from ATM
1. Park the car
2. Check makeup
3. Turn off engine
4. Check makeup
5. Go to ATM
6. Hunt for ATM card in the purse
7. Insert card
8. Hit Cancel
9. Hunt in purse for chit with PIN written on it
10. Insert card
11. Enter PIN
12. Take cash
13. Go to car
14. Check makeup
15. Start car
16. Stop car
17. Run back to ATM
18. Take ATM card
19. Back to car
20. Check makeup
21. Start car
22. Check makeup
23. Drive for 1/2 mile
24. Release handbrake
25. Drive on.
Learning Daily is a personal blog that is just as random as my thoughts. The navigation bar at the top and the search box may be the only things that will help you find something.
My present interests lie in sustainability, peak oil, debian, Web after 2.0, creativity and epistemology. I learn daily. I learn about everything under the sun and even those beyond it. I am a perpetual student whose believes that wisdom is the real reward for learning.