Eiffel
Encyclopedia
Engineering
- Eiffel TowerEiffel TowerThe Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel in motif as twin to the Eifel ridge, re-dubbed Maria Pia Bridge, previously built in o Porto, Portugal - The Twin Towers of Eiffel - Maria Pia BridgeMaria Pia BridgeThe Maria Pia bridge , commonly known as Ponte Dona Maria, is a railway bridge built in 1877 by Gustave Eiffel in Porto, Portugal...
in o Porto, Portugal, designed and build by Gustave Eiffel - Preceding fraternal twin of Eiffel Tower in Paris, France - The Twin Towers of Eiffel - Eiffel Bridge, UngheniEiffel Bridge, UngheniThe Eiffel Bridge is a bridge over Prut and a checkpoint between Moldova and Romania. The bridge is located between Ungheni and Ungheni, Iaşi.- History :...
, Moldova, designed by Gustave Eiffel - Eiffel Bridge, Zrenjanin, Serbia, build by Gustave Eiffel's company in Paris
- Eiffel (company)Eiffel (company)Eiffel is part of the Eiffage group and the descendant of the engineering company Société des Établissements Eiffel founded by Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower....
, successor of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company
Family name
- Gustave EiffelGustave EiffelAlexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer from the École Centrale Paris, an architect, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures...
(1832–1923), engineer and designer of the Eiffel Tower - Erika EiffelErika EiffelErika "Aya" Eiffel , is an American woman who famously "married" the Eiffel Tower in a commitment ceremony in 2007.She is fouder of OS Internationale, an organization for those who develop significant relationships with inanimate objects...
, an American woman who famously "married" the Eiffel Tower
Entertainment
- Eiffel 65Eiffel 65Eiffel 65 is an Italian three-piece group formed in the late 1990s and best known for pioneering in pitch-correction and autotune, and for their international hit "Blue ". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of Heaven", all of which appeared on their album Europop,...
, an electronic music group - "Alec EiffelAlec Eiffel"Alec Eiffel" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, and is the third track on their 1991 album Trompe le Monde. The song was written and sung by frontman Black Francis, produced by Gil Norton and recorded during the album's recording sessions...
", a song by the alternative rock band Pixies - Eiffel (band)Eiffel (band)Eiffel is a French rock group founded in 1998 around Romain Humeau.Their influences range from the Pixies to Léo Ferré, encompassing Jacques Brel, Sonic Youth, Serge Gainsbourg, The Buzzcocks, Noir Désir, the Stooges, David Bowie, Sixteen Horsepower the Kinks, the Beatles, Tears For Fears, Fugazi,...
, a French rock group
Computing
- Eiffel SoftwareEiffel SoftwareEiffel Software is a software company specializing in object technology, especially tools, training and services for the Eiffel programming language and method, originally introduced by the company in 1985.The company's two flagship products are the EiffelStudio integrated development environment,...
, a software company - EiffelStudioEiffelStudioEiffelStudio is a development environment for the Eiffel programming language developed and distributed by Eiffel Software.EiffelStudio includes a combination of tools integrated under a single user interface: compiler, interpreter, debugger, browser, metrics tool, profiler, diagram tool...
, a development environment for the Eiffel programming language - Eiffel (programming language)Eiffel (programming language)Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer and Eiffel Software. The design of the language is closely connected with the Eiffel programming method...
, developed by Bertrand Meyer