Eiffel Tower (Delaunay series) stylistically between the artist's "Saint-Séverin" series and "Windows" series. Delaunay's Eiffel Tower series is evoked in architectural paintings of other iconic buildings by his contemporary, the New York artist John Marin, in his "Woolworth Building, No. 31" of 1912, and later by the Ontario artist Greg Curnoe's "CN Tower" series of the 1970s and 1980s. The 1913 artist's book "La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France", a collaborative work between Sonia Delaunay and the poet Blaise Cendrars, forms an epic narrative of a Trans-Siberian Railway journey that concludes in Paris at a Simultanist Eiffel Tower. They
Eiffel Tower 1 minute. The original hydraulic mechanism is on public display in a small museum at the base of the east and west legs. Because the mechanism requires frequent lubrication and maintenance, public access is often restricted. The rope mechanism of the north tower can be seen as visitors exit the lift. Gustave Eiffel engraved on the tower the names of 72 French scientists, engineers and mathematicians in recognition of their contributions to the building of the tower. Eiffel chose this "invocation of science" because of his concern over the artists' protest. At the beginning of the 20th century, the engravings