A new study challenges conventional beliefs about Egypt’s iconic pyramids, with researchers claiming to have uncovered a vast ...

The tallest structure in the world at the time ... Author Guy de Maupassant famously said that the Eiffel Tower’s restaurant ...

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 ...

When it was built, the Eiffel Tower — which measures 1,063 feet — was the tallest building in the world. Although it was meant to be a temporary structure — and would have been knocked down ...

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 ...

Projects on five continents The tower came towards the end of Eiffel’s career, during which he built around 500 structures across five continents. He built his reputation as a builder of railway ...

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 ...

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.