To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. Now the Eiffel family has gotten involved.

a fifth-generation descendant of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer-turned-businessman who built the tower, Bloomberg got a tour and gained insight into facts (and secrets) you never knew to ask about.

Built between 1887 and 1889 by French engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower is made of iron rather than steel ... Today ...

Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi designed the statue—officially called Liberty Enlightening the World—with help from ...

(Bloomberg) -- When the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated at the 1889 Paris Exposition, it was derided by some of the city’s leading artists as useless, monstrous and barbaric. By objective measures it was ...

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Pont Alexandre III is considered one of the ... Designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was initially met with mixed reactions from the public and the artistic community — some people ...

Interestingly, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, a French architect and structural engineer, designed the internal structural elements of the Statue of Liberty before later working on the Eiffel Tower.