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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]
[65] [66] The following year, Bartholdi was able to obtain the services of the innovative designer and builder Gustave Eiffel. [63] Eiffel and his structural engineer, Maurice Koechlin, decided to abandon the pier and instead build an iron truss tower. Eiffel opted not to use a completely rigid structure, which would force stresses to ...
He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty [3], built by Viollet le Duc until his death and subsequently finished by Gustave Eiffel. Early life and education
The date of the strike was not picked at random as 27 December was the day of Gustave Eiffel's death. France: Eiffel Tower staff strike on centenary of creator's death Skip to main content
The Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. One of ...
Original designers: Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin, Emile Nouguier, Stephen Sauvestre. 50 engineers and designers produced 5,300 workshop designs. The tower was constructed with some 18,038 ...
The Eiffel Tower (/ ˈ aɪ f əl / ⓘ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ⓘ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.
Gustave Eiffel (15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French structural engineer from the École Centrale Paris, an architect, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) was known for his mansions and institutional buildings of the American "Gilded Age". His only formal training was as an ...