Iconic design: The staircase was designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, pictured left, for the 1889 Paris Exposition.

Lightning struck the Eiffel Tower in Paris and severed one of the six 1,200-foot wires which stretch from the top of the great tower (984 feet high, built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and completed in ...

THE death is announced, at the age of ninety-one years, of M. Gustave Eiffel, whose name will always be associated with the gigantic tower named after him and built by him in Paris in 1889. Alexandre ...

Since its erection for the 1889 Paris World’s Fair, Engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel’s spidery 984-ft. iron tower has attracted more attention seekers than anything in France except the bikini.

For the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, more than a hundred artists submitted plans to design the centerpiece, the masterpiece of the Exposition Universelle. The winner was an engineer named Alexandre ...