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  • Santos-Dumont rounds Eiffel Tower (1901) 2830138M. Santos-Dumont rounds Eiffel Tower1901 M. SANTOS-DUMONT ROUNDS EIFFEL TOWER Aeronaut Loses Prize by...
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  • Volume 9 Eiffel Tower 6119491911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 9 — Eiffel TowerEIFFEL TOWER. Erected for the exposition of 1889, the Eiffel Tower, in the...
    206 bytes (387 words) - 01:34, 11 January 2021
  • on July 13th, 1901 at 6.30 A.M. At 6.41 I started off. I turned the Eiffel Tower in the tenth minute and came back against an unexpected head wind, reaching...
    388 bytes (2,128 words) - 16:43, 8 March 2022
  • for his sketches (made as a 17-year-old student) of the Eiffel Tower under construction. The Tower. (1918, republished 1919 as The New Britain.) Some or...
    485 bytes (133 words) - 17:12, 17 March 2021
  • a south-east wind blowing 6 metres per second at the altitude of the Eiffel Tower. When I consider that I ​ SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION OF AËRO CLUB AT THE WINNING...
    388 bytes (1,378 words) - 16:45, 8 March 2022
  • occasion—all unknowing—steered over what was to be its exact course from the Eiffel Tower to the Seine at Bagatelle (see page 127). This prize of 100,000 francs...
    383 bytes (1,367 words) - 16:42, 8 March 2022
  • accidents; and I shall end in complete success.’’ The First Flight Around the Eiffel Tower Accordingly, during the same year, I built a new balloon, the ‘‘Santos-Dumont...
    954 bytes (6,775 words) - 11:13, 29 July 2023
  • Vaugirard, 13 Oct. 1899, sailed to the Champs de Mars, encircled the Eiffel Tower several times, proceeded to Auteuil and finally landed at the manœuvre...
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  • Rises Again, Sweeps Over to Puteaux, Comes Back and Goes Round the Eiffel Tower. TO COMPETE FOR DEUTSCH PRIZE THIS MORNING. M. Emmanuel Aimé Describes...
    513 bytes (1,813 words) - 22:33, 6 January 2021
  • something fierce must have happened! I thought you ought to know. The Eiffel Tower has been trying to talk to us for over two hours, but I can't get what...
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  • wooded recreation ground, owned by a company. Here a tower was begun on the lines of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and projected to exceed it in height, reaching...
    265 bytes (123 words) - 00:26, 21 December 2019
  • and other places of public amusement, including a lofty tower, resembling the Eiffel Tower of Paris. The municipality maintains an electric tram service...
    272 bytes (169 words) - 11:55, 16 May 2020
  • Cass Gilbert. It is 760 ft. high, has 57 storeys, and, excepting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, is the tallest building in the world. The gross sales of the...
    239 bytes (262 words) - 19:41, 31 January 2019
  • well of it but in virtue of the fact that the Eiffel Tower sets at one end of the Champ de Mars. If the tower had been built in the middle of the park the...
    313 bytes (4,769 words) - 17:25, 16 June 2024
  • not come to anything; while the great tower at Wembley Park (near Harrow), intended to surpass the Eiffel Tower at Paris, stopped at an early stage. It...
    184 bytes (414 words) - 20:44, 14 April 2022
  • solves the problem of aerial navigation (1901) M. Santos-Dumont rounds Eiffel Tower (1901) "The Dirigible Balloon of M. Santos-Dumont" by Sterling Heilig...
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  • was overshadowed by the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889. The Eiffel Tower (which see), wonderful as it was, was rivaled by the Machinery Palace...
    236 bytes (474 words) - 14:58, 16 January 2022
  • agreed to go round the Eiffel Tower that was built with the stolen Panama money? Don't you see that in bringing the Eiffel Tower into an experiment that...
    339 bytes (1,719 words) - 01:22, 11 October 2018
  • covered the distance from St. Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in eight minutes fifty seconds, turned the tower in forty seconds more, and in twelve minutes...
    917 bytes (8,353 words) - 11:16, 29 July 2023
  • continental Europe, and other parts of the world. Service between the Eiffel Tower, Paris, and the United States was put into effect in 1911, and in 1913...
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