Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 - December 27, 1923; French pronunciation / EfEl / in X-SAMPA, in English usually pronounced / ajfEl /) was a French engineer and entrepreneur, specialist of metallic structures. Born in Dijon, Cote-d'Or, France, he is most famous for building the Eiffel Tower, built from 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France. It is less well known that he designed the armature for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the United States. He gained his expertise in construction by designing ironwork for the bridge.
Gustave Eiffel also designed La Ruche in Paris, who would like the Eiffel Tower, a landmark of the city. A three-storey circular structure that looks more like a large beehive, it was created as a temporary structure for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900.
Eiffel's reputation suffered a severe setback when he was implicated in financial scandals round Ferdinand de Lesseps and the entrepreneurs backing the failed French Panama Canal project. Eiffel himself had no connection with the finances, and judgments of guilt and then reversed.
In later years Eiffel began to study aerodynamics.
Eiffel died on December 27, 1923 at his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, Paris.
In English the most common family name was pronounced in the German fashion, not in French fashion.
famous buildings
Eiffel tower
statue of Liberty
Nice Observatory
(December 15, 1832 - December 27, 1923; French pronunciation / EfEl / in X-SAMPA, in English usually pronounced / ajfEl /) was a French engineer and entrepreneur, specialist of metallic structures. Born in Dijon, Cote-d'Or, France, he is most famous for building the Eiffel Tower, built from 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France. It is less well known that he designed the armature for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the United States. He gained his expertise in construction by designing ironwork for the bridge.
Gustave Eiffel also designed La Ruche in Paris, who would like the Eiffel Tower, a landmark of the city. A three-storey circular structure that looks more like a large beehive, it was created as a temporary structure for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900.
Eiffel's reputation suffered a severe setback when he was implicated in financial scandals round Ferdinand de Lesseps and the entrepreneurs backing the failed French Panama Canal project. Eiffel himself had no connection with the finances, and judgments of guilt and then reversed.
In later years Eiffel began to study aerodynamics.
Eiffel died on December 27, 1923 at his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, Paris.
In English the most common family name was pronounced in the German fashion, not in French fashion.
famous buildings
Eiffel tower
statue of Liberty
Nice Observatory
