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The construction of the Eiffel Tower began in Paris in 1887, in advance of the 1889 World's Fair. Gustave Eiffel's tower, which was actually designed by his senior engineers Maurice Koechlin and ...

Ratcliffe, who is one of Britain's richest people, said the new soccer venue could be a tourist attraction in the manner of ...

Thanks to safety precautions like guard-rails, only one worker died during its construction. In this 1888 photo, the tower's first platform was completed. They could ride one of the tower's five ...

Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for ...

The construction of the Eiffel Tower, which stands 300 meters tall, cost £1.2 billion in 1889, which is equivalent to £30 billion today. In 2024, the Eiffel Tower Stadium was built for the Paris ...