Nicola Wood, Senior Editor Designed and constructed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (the World's Fair), the Eiffel Tower was always meant to be a temporary structure, but it has skirted ...

This piece of the medal contains fragments of iron that were removed from the Eiffel Tower and preserved during renovations in the 20th century. The outer part of the medal is meant to catch the light ...

That’s half as high as the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel's tremendous success with the Garabit Viaduct, and later with the framework of the Statue of Liberty and Paris' Eiffel Tower, earned him ...

Eiffel made use of new technology that ... The 300-metre (984-foot) tower it was the tallest structure in the world until overtaken by New York’s Chrysler Building in 1930.

Eiffel in all his lofty structures namely, to give to the angles of the tower such a curv that it should be capable of resisting the transvers effects of wind pressures without necessitating th ...