Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower
   The Eiffel Tower was erected for the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The designer for this latticework iron tower was France's most renowned authority on iron construction, civil engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923). Eiffel had organized an iron construction company in 1867 and quickly became France's foremost builder in his field, specializing in bridges. He did not limit his work solely to France. In fact, in 1885 his firm designed the interior steel framework for the Statue of Liberty, presented by France to the United States. Eiffel had also done railwayspans for Russia and some South American countries.
   When erected, the Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure, 984 feet high, until completion of the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1930, which took the crown away from the tower by adding sixty feet. One of the tallest buildings in the world today is the New York World Trade Center, which reaches skyward 1,353 feet.

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