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Over the last several years, DE has had many inquiries about the Eiffel Tower. Here are a few little known facts.
The Eiffel Tower was designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel who was a chemical engineer by education. Eiffel was hired by a rail manufacturing company and began practicing civil engineering at age 25 as the Project Engineer of a bridge spanning the Garrone River at Bordeaux. The Eiffel Tower was denounced as an eyesore when first proposed and was called the "tragic lamppost" and "Grande Suppositaire" by the press. At 990 feet tall, the Eiffel tower almost doubled the height of the tallest man-made structures to date; the Washington Monument at 554 feet high, and the Great Pyramid of Cheops at 482 feet. The wrought iron tower ushered in a new age of tall buildings constructed of iron and steel.
The tower was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and was the center-piece of the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Construction began in January 1887 and was completed on 31 March 1889.
