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Gustave Eiffel
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A man best known for structures such as his tower constructed at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, French engineer Gustave Eiffel was born on this day in 1832. His 'Eiffel Tower', an impressive structure at over 984 feet in height, was the tallest structure in the world for over forty years until completion of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Recognized around the world, the Eiffel Tower stands today as a graceful example of engineered beauty and design.
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Gustave Eiffel is an integral part of the French landscape. His creations are everywhere, and often spectacular in nature, such as on the banks of the Seine where his monumental tower stands. Sometimes they are more understated, such as a small railway bridge or a steel structure that is hardly noticeable.
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Gustave Eiffel has a huge reputation as an excellent architect of bridges, viaducts, and the Eiffel Tower. He helped and advised the designing and the construction of the Statue of Liberty and the church of Notre Dame Des Champs. Though rejected in his time, he was ... the first person to think of putting a tunnel under the English Channel and an underground rail system underneath Paris.
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Gustave Eiffel, an Arts and Manufacturing engineer who specialized in metal art pieces, was born in Dijon in 1832, and was barely 26 years old when he built his first work. In 1884, Eiffel patented the idea of a metal tower. Five years later, he submitted his tower design to the 1889 World Fair organization committee that was very taken by it. This committee then launched a public "competition" with requirements that matched exactly those proposed by Eiffel. Of course, Eiffel won the competition, and his tower became the official monument of the 1889 World Fair. Eiffel was ... the creator and builder of fabulous works such as the famous metallic structure of the viaduct of Garabit in the Central Massif, the framework of the "Bon Marché" department store in the 7th arrondissement, and the Statue of Liberty which France gave to America in a gesture of friendship.
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Born in Dijon, Gustave Eiffel studied at the École Polytechnique and the École Centrale in Paris. He designed numerous bridges, the first in 1858 in Bordeaux, viaducts, and exhibition buildings; the ultimate in exhibition architecture came in 1889, when he built his famous tower in Paris. Throughout his life he was concerned with innovative structures and especially with the effects of wind loading on plane surfaces. He built an air tunnel in his laboratory at Auteuil for experimental purposes.
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Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon in 1832. He was a brilliant student at Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 1858, he built the railway bridge at Bordeaux where compressed air was first industrially used to drive in piles. He then built the bridge on the river Nive at Bayonne and the bridges of Capdenac and Florac. In 1867, he created his own company and workshops. In 1868, he built two large viaducts with metal feet (Viaducs de la Sioule et de Neuvial) and Maria Pia Bridge on the Douro river in Portugal.
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