WORLD'S GREATEST TOWER
PROPOSED PARIS STRUCTURE The structural details have been published of what will be the greatest tower ever built—the " Lighthouse of tho World," which is to be set up for the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. The tower is to have a height of 2i]ooft., and to cost nearly half a million pounds. Beams cast from tho top of this tower by night will be seen from as far away from Paris as the South Coast of Britain and Belgium. Circling the tower's exterior will be a broad* shelf rising uniformly 1600 ft., up which motor-cars may climb under their own power with the widening horizon in full view. Tho speed of descent for the cars will be regulated by apparatus connecting the axles to a rail. At a gradient of 1 in 10, the circular road, it is planned, will be about 3J miles long.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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149WORLD'S GREATEST TOWER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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