Walk of Ideas
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The Walk of Ideas is a set of six sculptures made on the occasion of 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany in Berlin unveiled on April 21, 2006 at Bebelplatz square near the Unterden Linden in front of Humboldt University. It is to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the modern printing press, c. 1450 in Mainz.
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[edit] Books
The stack of books, below, which is more than twelve meters (40 ft) in height, took about three days to build on the Bebelplatz. It is to commemorate German writers and poets and especially to Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of Modern Book Printing:
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[edit] Einstein
This following sculpture is to commemorate to Einstein’s works on relativity, which revolutionized our perception of time and space. The sculpture consists of three segments, weighs a total of 10 tons, is almost 4 meters tall and 12 meters long:
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[edit] Medicine
The following small pill sculpture with a diameter of 10 meters commemorates to researchers like Felix Hoffmann, Robert Koch, Emil Adolf von Behring, Paul Ehrlich and Gerhard Domagk:
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[edit] Music
The notes, below, symbolize Germany as a nation of music with composers as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner, with pioneers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and with interpreters as Anne-Sophie Mutter:
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[edit] Auto
This following automobile sculpture has a length of 10.2 meters, is 3.25 meters high, 4.5 meters wide and weighs a total of about 10 tons. It’s designed by Audi. More than hundred people worked on it from planning through to construction and production. The automobile was an idea for example by August Horch, Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Ferdinand Porsche and Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the Diesel engine:
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[edit] Football
The following boots are 12 meters long and commemorate to an invention by Adi Daßler. He had developed football shoes that provided particularly firm grip on the soft ground that was soaked with rain and revolutionized football with the flexible screw-in stud shoe in 1953:
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