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Gustave Eiffel: Art of Metal Structures VOL. III is the third and final book in the Gustave Eiffel Exploration Series. These three books cover the entire North, Central and South American Continent in the quest to discover original iron structures designed and built by the French engineer. This book contains original full-colour photo illustrations-taken by the author himself-which do justice to the intricate iron structures and to the ornamental details of Eiffel's monuments. The societal components of Eiffel's bridges and railway stations are that they functioned to permit the movement of travelers and commercial goods from one point to the next. A good number of Eiffel's bridges and viaducts were built exclusively for rail use, thus helping to expand the national infrastructure of many South American countries. In fact, many of these bridges and rail stations are still in use today and continue to have an impact on the lives of those who use them. The Bolivar Bridge of Arequipa, Peru, is fairly simple in design yet extremely graceful; it has been in use since 1879. The Farol de Sao Tome, in Campos, Brazil, is a metallic lighthouse that indicates the existence of danger at sea and also provides guidance to navigators on the location of land. It was made by Eiffel in a non-corrosive metal and this is why the Farol de Sao Tome is still in such good shape; it has functioned regularly since 1882. The Cape of St. Tom is a difficult place to navigate due to its submerged rocks which spread 28 kilometres (15 miles) out to sea. The Farol de Sao Tome has undoubtedly saved professional and recreational mariners alike from shipwreck and loss of life. The Santa Barbara Church of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, was designed by Eiffel as a prototype for missionary churches intended for France's colonies in Indochina. The good people of Santa Rosalia lost their church in a fire in 1878. For a number of years, religious ceremonies were held in various locations. In 1889 this galvanized metal structure was put on display in the Paris Exposition to attract potential customers. A benevolent Santa Rosalia citizen learned of the structure, purchased it, had it disassembled, shipped and then reassembled in Santa Rosalia, to the benefit of the townsfolk. This photo-journal book provides many and varied examples of Eiffel's iron structures which are imbued with social character and cultural significance.

Gustave Eiffel: Genius of Iron Works is Vol. II in the Gustave Eiffel Exploration Series.In order to do justice to the intricate features of his monuments, nothing less than full-colour illustrations would suffice; therefore, all three volumes in this series contain real life full colour pictures taken by the author himself. The French engineer Gustave Eiffel was an innovative engineer-cum-millionaire whose success as a builder of churches, bridges and railway stations emboldened him to apply his unique technology to the construction of many iron projects including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and the central support system of the Statute of Liberty in N.Y. Each of Eiffel's iron projects around the world has its own architectural beauty and its own fundamental lines of construction that were determined by its use. In this respect, his structural and ornamental projects have effectively and literally embedded their presence in the cultural landscape of the places and the countries in which they are found. Eiffel's choices on aesthetics, as well as the technical grounds for each of his iron structures, were inspired by expert calculations and an admirable economy of material, a crucial fact and significant achievement. As such, Eiffel indirectly redefined the post-Industrial Revolution term of "Triumph of Iron" for the modern age. He made use of advance knowledge of the behaviour of metal arches and metal structures under duress, including the stress of wind forces, which earned him the nickname "Magician of Iron." Eiffel's iron structures attract meaning--as an exciting art form--the way "beauty" and "strength" are harmoniously drawn towards each other. For Eiffel, those were pressing goals that would exalt science and technology and solidify robustness with elegance Due to Eiffel's German-Jewish heritage, the industrial look of his creations was branded as "nothing more or less than a German-Jew whose French taste was laced with disguised elements of his German-Jewish ethnicity. However, Eiffel was a Catholic and the attacks on his person were based on his parent's birthplace, religion and perhaps on some jealousy of his fame as the architectural engineer who designed and built the Eiffel Tower.