On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by its designer, Gustave Eiffel, ...
The Eiffel Tower is among the most recognizable structures in the world and boasts a history that proves it’s as interesting ...
The radical cast-iron tower was built for the 1889 World Fair and the centenary of the 1789 Revolution by engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel made use of new technology that was already popular in ...
Pictured: The base of the Eiffel Tower and the view towards Trocadero ... This method was invented by Swiss Hans Jakob Schmid in 1880, but after World War I, it became too labor-intensive and ...