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 ...

Travel Tip: If you’re on a budget, the Esplanade is the best place to go for the classic view underneath the Eiffel Tower that won’t cost you a penny. We love looking up and seeing the famous ...

The 40-meter-long suspension bridge is 60 meters above ground and the fully secured structure is accessible from the first floor of Paris’ most famous landmark. The tower welcomed 6.3 million visitors ...

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.