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ParisExpo1889Machines

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Image ID :	02214-08
View/Description :	Perspective drawing of the interior
Image Date :	1889
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Rights Owner :	Public Domain
Image Source :	Engineering. The Paris Exhibition, May 3, 1889 (Vol. XLVII). London : Office for Advertisements and Publication.
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Image ID :	02483-08
View/Description :	Construction view with the great truss girders
Image Date :	1892
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Rights Owner :	Public Domain
ImageSource :	Watson, William: Civil Engineering,Public Works, and Architecture: Paris Universal Expo 1889 (Government Printing Office 1892)
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Image ID :	02482-08
View/Description :	Erection of the great truss girders. View of the girders and the erecting scaffolding. Method used by Cail & Co. (one of two methods used to erect the trusses).
Image Date :	1892
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Rights Owner :	Public Domain
Image Source :	Watson, William: Civil Engineering,Public Works, and Architecture: Paris Universal Expo 1889 (Government Printing Office 1892)
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Work ID :	ParisExpo1889Machines
Title :	Exposition Universalle 1889: Galerie des Machines Galerie des Machines Palais des Machines Machinery Hall
Creator/Agent :	Dutert, Charles [ULAN] [ARCHITECT] Contamin, Victor [ULAN] [ENGINEER]
Date (of work) :	1889
Location/Site :	France [TGN] Île-de-France [TGN] Paris [TGN]
GIS Coordinates :	+48.853008+2.302241/
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Description :	The Galerie des machines was the largest single-span structure in the world when it was built for the World’s Fair on the Champ de Mars in Paris in 1889. Building destroyed in 1910.
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Work Type :	Architecture [AAT] Engineering [AAT]
Measurements :	420 m [LENGTH] 115 m [WIDTH] 43.5 m [HEIGHT]
Material :	iron, glass
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Nineteenth Century European [AAT]
Cultural Context :	Parisian French Industrial Revolution European [AAT]
Subject :	Exposition buildings [AAT] Exhibition buildings [AAT]
Relation :	one of several buildings in the exhibition complex
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Keywords :	arches, arch, hinged arch, scaffold, truss
Notes :	used for food exhibits in the Expo of 1900, and as an indoor cycle track