More than 200 million people have visited the puddle iron tower since 1889. Created for the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City, the Parachute Jump was originally located in Flushing Meadows ...

the Eiffel Tower celebrated its official inauguration at the start of the 1889 Paris World Fair after more than two years of construction. Take a look back at the intricate labor that went into ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, Paris hosted the 1889 World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle). Hoping to be considered for the high-profile project, artists from around the ...

There are cheering signs that order will soon emerge from the confusion that was inevitable at the outset of the movement to put the preliminaries for the great World's Fair of 1892 into shape.

The movement in favor of a World's Fair to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by COLUMBUS is beginning to take a practical shape. View Full Article in ...

The inventors were in fierce competition. Edison took his inventions to the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. There his extravagant display exposed the technology to millions of visitors, many of whom had ...

For example, Paris owes its Eiffel Tower to the 1889 World's Fair, and the Space Needle in Seattle was erected for the 1962 fair. In December, Minneapolis' pitch won the blessing of the Obama ...

The 1939 New York World’s Fair introduced television and the 1889 Paris Exposition unveiled the Eiffel Tower. So when the 1964-65 World’s Fair says it popularized the Belgian waffle ...

An arrangement of buildings around a terrace had been used at the last World's Fair, in Paris of 1889 -- but the Chicago site was four times larger. Daniel Hudson Burnham, of the Chicago ...

The Eiffel Tower, Paris' best-known landmark, was built for the 1889 World Fair and meant to be destroyed. That never happened. Lehanneur said it would be a huge "honour" if the flame could stay ...

1. The tower was built as an entrance arch for the 1889 World’s Fair. To mark the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, Paris hosted the 1889 World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle).