Though the Eiffel Tower bears his name, Gustave Eiffel was not initially enthusiastic about the structure nor did he design ...

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor shares something in common with other marvels of the world that are, were and never ...

But the tower, which came to symbolise France, could very easily have had a German name. Eiffel, who had German roots, was born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen dit Eiffel in 1832 in Dijon ...

The Eiffel Tower was almost torn down. It has changed color seven times. A secret bunker saved the tower during World War I.

The radical cast-iron tower was built for the 1889 World Fair and the centenary of the 1789 Revolution by engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel made use of new technology that was already popular in ...

On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower opened to the ... A 300-member committee protested the tower. Led by authors Guy de ...

It was originally used by Gustave Eiffel to climb between the 2nd and 3rd floor so he could reach his office at the top of ...