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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Gustave Eiffel already had several large projects to his name by the time the 1889 World’s Fair was announced. He had engineered Budapest’s railway station and Porto’s Maria Pia Bridge ...

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).