The Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited landmarks in the world today, was once the tallest structure ever built too. At the ...

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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 ...

Eiffel designed the tower that would bear his name for the World Fair in Paris in 1889. But the tower, which came to symbolise France, could very easily have had a German name. Eiffel, who had ...

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 ...