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Gustave Eiffel
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In 1885, Gustave Eiffel started on a project, a rather large lady called the Statue of Liberty, that was to be given as a gift to the United States by the French people as a sign of international friendship. Eiffel was one of the great minds behind Liberty along with Auguste Bartholdi and Richard M. Hunt. Eiffel designed the wrought-iron skeleton for the inside of the Statue of Liberty. He ... supervised the raising of Liberty. He calculated how much pressure would be put on each joint and how to distribute the weight and instructed how to assemble the various pieces of the great lady to maximize the safety and life of the standing statue. Eiffel did all this very economically and his methods have not been beaten to this day.
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Building such a high tower for that period was not Gustave Eiffel’s idea. One day in 1882, Maurice Koechlin, chief of the Research Unit of the Eiffel Company, and his colleague Emile Nouguier conceived the idea of a metal tower for the 1889 World Fair which was to be held in Paris. The first draft by Koechlin was dated June 6, 1884. Koechlin (1856-1946) and Nouguier submitted the draft to Gustave Eiffel who said he did not want to be involved, but let his two engineers continue developing plans for such a tower. With the help of the architect Sauvestre and the sculptor Bartholdi, the two men submitted their project to the General Commissioner of the Decorative Arts Exhibition who agreed to display a drawing of the tower in Autumn 1884.
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The Industrial Revolution played an important role in Gustave Eiffel's life. People were traveling across the world, new technologies and materials became available, and countries were industrializing. Much of Eiffel's work was affected by one or more of these conditions brought by the Industrial Revolution.
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French architecture of the end of the 19th Century was marked by the genius of an extraordinary architect: Gustave Eiffel. He has handed down his testimony of the industrial revolution, which enshrined the supremacy of steel.
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At first reluctant, Gustave Eiffel appropriates the idea of his co-workers by buying back the patent put down on September 18th, 1884. It is now a question for him of making it credible with the eyes of the public opinion. The entrepreneur displays all his energy and his advertising talent; he ... turns to good account his relations in the political environment. Gustave Eiffel notably acts with Edouard Locroy, Minister of Trade and general police
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Gustave Eiffel received the Legion of Honour medal in recognition of his achievement. In the first year, 1889, two million visitors each paid five francs a head to climb to the top.
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