A view of the Tokyo Tower in 2015 Frédéric Soltan / Corbis via Getty Images For the last several years, Worth has been compiling a large inventory of Eiffel Tower replicas and loading as many ...

As a result, Gustave Eiffel (also known for designing the Statue of Liberty) solved the problem by making his tower out of iron - a lightweight but strong material. The tower is painted in three ...

Narrator] So why does the Eiffel Tower resist wind so much more effectively? Iron is a flexible material, so the great height of the structure makes it vulnerable to large wind forces. But with ...

The 300 artists who protested it, the woman who married it, the man who REALLY designed it, and more. Eiffel originally pitched his tower to the city of Barcelona, Spain. They rejected it, worried ...