A WONDERPUL TOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

A WONDERPUL TOWN.

'A' a moßt wonderful kind, :"• which, if exeeuted, would render the Paris ■ Exhibition'Qf 1889 for ever memorable, »■■ has been published by M.' Eiffel, the Fronoh engineer, and is described in a recent issue of "La Nature." It is to eroct in the grounds of the Exhibition an .-:•• ■ Iron tower'Bot) metres in Height, that -iff. '-,■■ twice as high a« the Qwat Pyramid,, and ■•. m jjjm. teioo tHe liclglit tf tlio Stran burg Cathodviil 110,0 ineti'osho eonilden ♦«: astlioli]4]tslchtposßlbloinastructw ■:::; of.whioli stone Is the principal material. .>: and IpoH'on Is proposed, Tho knew Vx the towerjs of pyramidal shape, and is to be seventy 'metres high, and the super. fioial area at this Height will he BOOQ square metres, i, abovo this there are to b.§ threp other''stages, or atorlea, lnwhjch. .:.' will be rooms whioh. it is proposed to ÜBS ■•■■>■ for various purposes, solentifio and other. The towors of Notre Dame,' will be mew •■■■■ pigmieß beside this colossal structure, and will not reach to its first floor. ThYprojector points:', out that, in MLjii«£ to its monumental character, ture will ".'be useful for strategical purposes 'in war time, on account of vast range of view, for meteorp. logle and Mtronpmb! #i#» O W' for at such, a ftqight the clearness of tie a» ':■■ and, fee absence of fogs would render v'observations .poasiblo which cannot possibly made on the ground, The tower v, might also be u?ed for the electric light. The whole exhibition and the surrounding 'neighbourhood might thus be lighted from a central, point, Many scientific problems,' it is suggested, may be inveati* gated from'the tower, such as the resistance., of the air to different weights certain laws of elasticity, the study of the compression of gas or vapours, and of the oscillation of the pendulara. In shape it is to resemble an enormous lighthouse, gradually tapering from a wide base to the summit. ' .';.':.■