“Essentially, the structure of the Eiffel Tower – which was a far-ranging extrapolation of Eiffel’s spidery, wrought-iron bridge pylons – could not have been more simple: four immense, …

The Eiffel Tower has an iconic curved silhouette which was declared by the Tower’s designer, Gustave Eiffel, to have been determined by the pattern of wind loads acting on the Tower, …

Reproduced here is the official agreement of January 8, 1887, which outlines Gustave Eiffel’s construction and operation of the tower.

reator, the Eiffel Tower was alled the “300m Tower”. It was exactly 984 feet tall. However, on its inauguration day on March 31, it was topped by a large hagpole from which the French hag …

From a detailed set of plans the 12,000 metal parts of the tower were all prefabricated and numbered for assembly. The majority of the 2.5 million rivets used were in place before the …

Efficiency: Efficient form of an iron cantilever (9400 tons to go 984 ft - 1/10th Wash Monument, 1/3 StL Arch) Economy: Small cost to the people of Paris (Eiffel built with grant + 20 years of …

structural work. Eifel would go on to build hundreds of diferent types of metal structures all . round the world. Bridges, and particularly railway bridges, were his favorite field of work, but he also …