The Atomium is a monument built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels
World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it is 102-metres (335 ft)
tall, with nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the
shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
Tubes which connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all
eight vertices to the centre enclose escalators connecting the ... - All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
