View allAll Photos Tagged Column
The newest addition to Perry's lineup is... M208? Yep! M208 got replaced with... another... M208... That's a partial-blackout!!!! YAAAYY!!!
Artist: Samuel Bourne
Artist Bio: British, 1834 - 1912
Creation Date: 1865
Process: albumen print
Credit Line: Gift of the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
Accession Number: 2002.028.007
First drafts for a bridge connecting the two cities of Remscheid and Solingen go back as far as 1889. Preparatory work began in 1893, the bridge was finished in 1897.
The six support columns have a maximum height of 69 meters. In the middle of the structure, the main arc has a span of 170 meters. The overall length of the structure is 465 meters.
A total of 5,000 tons of steel were used in its construction. 950,000 rivets hold the structure together. During construction, a number of advanced building techniques were used.
Anton von Rieppel (1852 – 31 January 1926), an architect and engineer, was in charge of the project. A memorial plaque at the foot of the bridge reminds one of his efforts.
Originally, the bridge was planned to be single-track. However, high future traffic growth projections led to the redesign as a dual-track bridge. Before its opening, the rail distance between the cities of Remscheid and Solingen was 42 kilometers. With a direct connection via the bridge, this distance shrank to 8 kilometers.
The bridge was a masterpiece of Victorian-era engineering. For its time, it was a highly sophisticated structure. It astonished the local population, many of whom had had little exposure to such state-of-the-art engineering work.
Very quickly, urban legends began to spread.
Some of these unfounded “tall tales”, (which are sometimes repeated to this day), are:
-Allegedly, the last rivet fastened in the bridge was made of pure gold.
-Allegedly, due to computational errors made by von Rieppel, the architect, half of the bridge had to be demolished since the two simultaneously built halves did not fit together.
- Allegedly, von Rieppel threw himself off the bridge and died in the fall.
Of course, there is no truth in any of these stories. The bridge was constructed as planned; von Rieppel’s complex calculations, (all carried out without the aid of computers or arithmetic aids), were correct – he died about 30 years later after an unrelated illness.
What might be true are rumours about Emperor Wilhelm II's boycott of the inauguration ceremony. According to legend, the Emperor was annoyed that such a state-of-art structure was named after his grandfather, Wilhelm I, not after himself. He therefore decided not to attend the celebrations in person.
What is true is that the bridge has attracted an unknown, but large number of suicides during its more than 100-year existence.
The Prussian Parliament approved the 5 million Marks required to build the bridge in 1890.
The first breaking of the earth was on 26 February 1894. A total of 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of dynamite and 1,600 kilograms (3,500 lb) of black powder were needed during construction.
The bridge's official inauguration celebration took place on 15 July 1897. Emperor Wilhelm II did not attend the ceremony in person. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia attended the festivities instead. Emperor Wilhelm II visited the bridge two years later, on 12 August 1899.
Two columns overlooking the plain at the grave mound of Karakus, in southeastern Turkey, erected by Mithridates II. for members of his family.
The Victory Column (German: Siegessäule ) is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the
so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy".
Calle Höglund | Photographer - Stockholm, Sweden
A shot taken under a pier in Kauai, Hawaii.
Cheers
Calle
-----------------------------
Copyright © 2013 Calle Höglund.
deviantART I Twitter I Facebook Fan Page I Vimeo I 500px I Google+
Canon Eos 7d
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II
TV 1/125
AV 2.8
ISO 800
Post - Production with Lightroom 4.3 and Photoshop
Concrete columns in a construction site. As usual, in urban areas (like Dubai here) abstracts and minimalistic approaches are favored by me.
I think of making some contrast philosophically; as Dubai is one big city with entwined roads and scape, it is possible to create some minimalistic touch out of it. I'm not sure it is minimalistic enough here though!
Please feel free to comment, leave a critique and if you like my work, please consider following me. Have a great day! www.instagram.com-silviu_g_photo www.instagram.com-portraits_by_silviu
Fatehpur Sikri itself was founded as the capital of the Mughal Empire in 1571 by Emperor Akbar, serving this role from 1571 to 1585, when Akbar abandoned it due to a campaign in Punjab and was later completely abandoned in 1610. The name of the city is derived from the village called Sikri which previously occupied the location. An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) excavation from 1999 to 2000 indicated that there was housing, temples and commercial centres here before Akbar built his capital. The region was settled by Sungas following their expansion. It was controlled by Sikarwar Rajputs from the 7th to 16th century CE until the Battle of Khanwa (1527). The khanqah of Sheikh Salim Chishti existed earlier at this place. Akbar's son Jahangir was born in the village of Sikri to his favourite wife Mariam-uz-Zamani in 1569 and in that year Akbar began construction of a religious compound to commemorate the Sheikh who had predicted the birth. After Jahangir's second birthday, he began the construction of a walled city and imperial palace here. The city came to be known as Fatehpur Sikri, the "City of Victory", after Akbar's victorious Gujarat campaign in 1573. After occupying Agra in 1803, the East India Company established an administrative centre here and it remained so until 1850. In 1815, the Marquess of Hastings ordered the repair of monuments at Sikri.
Fatehpur Sikri was awarded the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986
The original column in Place Vendôme was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz. Its veneer of 425 bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon captured at Austerlitz. These plates were designed by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and executed by a large team of sculptors. A statue of Napoleon, bare-headed, crowned with laurels and holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory in his left hand, was placed atop the column. After the Bourbon Restoration, the statue was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf. In 1871, legislation was passed authorizing the dismantling of the column. Before the column was taken down, its bronze plates were preserved; however, after employing a series of ropes, quarry workers saw that the statue fall over on the heap of sand and break into pieces. After the suppression of the Paris Commune, the decision was made to rebuild the column with the statue of Napoléon restored at its apex. In 1874, the column was re-erected at the center of Place Vendôme with a copy of the original statue on top. An inner staircase leading to the top is no longer open to the public.