When you read biographies of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and his famous tower, which turned 125 yesterday, you're struck at first by a paradox: How did something so daring, so beautiful, so outrageous—in ...
The Eiffel Tower, which sits along Paris’ Champ de Mars, turns 128 years old this March. From 1889 to 1930, it reigned as the tallest structure in the world. Let’s take a look back at the Iron Lady’s ...
On May 15, 1889, 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 ...