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EIFFEL TOWER |
Gustave Eiffel : The
architect of the Eiffel Tower
The
Eiffel Tower was build in 1889 by Gustave Eiffel : Born in Dijon in
1832, he graduated from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in
1855. His outstanding career as a constructor was marked by work on
the Porto viaduct over the river Douro in 1876, the Garabit viaduct in
1884, Pest railway station in Hungary, the dome of the Nice
observatory, and the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty. It
culminated in 1889 with the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel died in 1923. |
