The Eiffel Tower was built for the Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in 1889 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ...

A wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in ... not initially enthusiastic about the structure nor did he design it. The tower was actually thought up by engineers Maurice Koechlin ...

3. Several hundred workers spent two years assembling the lattice tower. The final design called for 18,000 pieces of puddle iron and an incredible 2.5 million rivets. Admittedly, that sounds a ...