The construction of the Eiffel Tower began in Paris in 1887, in advance of the 1889 World's Fair. Gustave Eiffel's tower, which was actually designed by his senior engineers Maurice Koechlin and ...

The method facilitated its incredibly rapid construction in just over two ... Author Guy de Maupassant famously said that the ...

The Eiffel Tower was built for the Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in 1889 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ...

in place until the 1960s), the Eiffel Tower can be spotted from almost anywhere in the French capital. Its wrought-iron lattice construction—which was actually a mathematical choice, not an ...

Thanks to safety precautions like guard-rails, only one worker died during its construction. In this 1888 photo, the tower's first platform was completed. They could ride one of the tower's five ...

The Expressway’s construction involved an impressive use of materials. It required 2 lakh metric tons of steel, which is 30 times more than what was used in the construction of the Eiffel Tower.