A photo from open sources The longest and highest cable-stayed bridge – Millau Viaduct is rightly called the greatest achievement of engineering thoughts of the 21st century. In addition, he is a distant “relative” of the famous Eiffel tower. Not only France and originality make it related to her construction, but also the architectural and construction company “Eiffage”, in which includes a unit of Gustav Eiffel.
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Michelle Virlocho became the author of this fantastic project – French engineer who had already designed almost the same grand cable-stayed bridge in Normandy and Norman Foster – English Architect, author of the magnificent building of Hong Kong Airport.
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However, Millau Viaduct is a miracle of architecture and engineering, one of the supports of which is slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower and only just below the Empire State Building, nearly two seconds long half a kilometer and weighing 36 thousand tons (this is subject to hollowness of its designs) would not be possible if it the brilliant creators did not use the energy of lightning in the construction, the riddle of a simple frying pan, the tricks of the ancient Celtic builders boats, as well as guesses prompted by a stray atomic submarine and the incident at the Silver Mines.
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How does all this relate to construction and especially the discovery of exactly on time (December 14, 2004) the grand viaduct Millau, which unloaded from endless traffic jams the route from Paris to the southern regions France, watch a movie that is simply incredible human genius. There are many unusual bridges in the world.
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