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  2. File:Eiffel Tower.pdf - Wikipedia

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  3. Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, a distinction it retained until 1929 when the Chrysler Building in New York City was topped out. [102] The tower also lost its standing as the world's tallest tower to the Tokyo Tower in 1958 but retains its status as the tallest freestanding (non-guyed) structure in France.

  4. The Eiffel Tower remains a bit of a mystery to those not well-versed in architectural history. To learn more about this iconic landmark, we've gathered 12 of the best Eiffel Tower facts.

  5. Eiffel Tower Fast Facts - AOL

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    Designer Gustave Eiffel had a small apartment cloistered away in the upper reaches of the tower. In 2016, a second (temporary) apartment was built inside the tower by vacation rental company ...

  6. Émile Nouguier - Wikipedia

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    Émile Nouguier (17 February 1840 – 23 November 1897) was a French civil engineer and architect. He is famous for co-designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, the Garabit viaduct, the highest in the world at the time, [citation needed] near Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, and the Faidherbe Bridge over the Sénégal River in Senegal.

  7. Eiffel Tower Turns 125 Today: Can You ID the Real One? - AOL

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    Today marks the 125th birthday of Paris's Eiffel Tower.Erected for the 1889 World's Fair, Gustave Eiffel's controversial 324-meter structure (the tallest manmade object in the world at the time ...

  8. Gustave Eiffel - Wikipedia

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    Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born in France, in the Côte-d'Or, the first child of Catherine-Mélanie (née Moneuse) and Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel. [6] He was a descendant of Marguerite Frédérique (née Lideriz) and Jean-René Bönickhausen, who had emigrated from the German town of Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. [7]

  9. Lattice tower - Wikipedia

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    Eiffel Tower: Paris, France 1889 312.3 1,025 When built held the absolute height record for tallest structure of any type in the world until 1930 1956 1957 KCTV Broadcast Tower: Kansas City, Missouri, US 1956 317.6 1,042 1957 1958 Eiffel Tower: Paris, France 1889 321 1,053 The Eiffel Tower regained the record when it added an antenna. 1958 1973