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Bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot (300-meter) tower of open-lattice wrought iron was selected in a competition to erect a memorial at the exposition. Twice as high as the dome of St. Peter's in Rome or the Great Pyramid of Giza, nothing like it had ever been built before. This view was made about four months short of the tower's completion.
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Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest human-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. It was the first structure in the world to surpass ...
Taking a photo has never been easier than it is today. ... Old-time Photos #21 The Opening Of The Eiffel Tower During The 1889 World’s Fair ... #24 A Cable Worker During The Construction Of The ...
Construction: 1887-1889 (2 years, 2 months and 5 days). 1889 - The tower opens during the Universal Exposition, a fair celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. It is the tallest ...
The massive structure turns 128 years old this month.
Français : 660. Exposition Universelle de 1889. -- Vue sur Auteuil, prise de la Tour Eiffel. ND. Phot. - Vue partielle du Champ-de-Mars avec, au premier plan le Pavillon du Vénézuéla (à gauche) et le Pavillon du Mexique (à droite), au second plan de gauche à droite le Pavillon des Enfants, le Pavillon de la Mer et le Bâtiment de la Douane, au-delà de l'Avenue de Suffren Gare du Champ ...
Speaking of the tower construction workers, the son-in-law of Eiffel, declared, "no soldier on the battle field deserved better mention than these humble toilers, who, will never go down in history." During the exposition, no one other than construction personnel were allowed higher than the second viewing platform.