“Gustave Eiffel never called the Eiffel Tower ‘the ... there is an information desk, a casual buffet-style eatery, and ...

Gustave Eiffel's civil engineering firm used a whopping 7,300 tons of iron and 2.5 million rivets — but it was more than worth the effort. The tower received more than two million visitors at ...

THE death is announced, at the age of ninety-one years, of M. Gustave Eiffel, whose name will always be associated with the gigantic tower named after him and built by him in Paris in 1889.

The date of their strike was not picked at random: 27 December is the centenary of the death of the tower's creator, Gustave Eiffel. A visionary French engineer and entrepreneur, Eiffel died on ...