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Are we to believe that because one is an engineer, one is not preoccupied by beauty? Gustave Eiffel came out to retort to a searing attack, made from 47 top French artists and writersthe expertswho labeled his work with remarks, "the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower, which popular ill-feeling, so often an arbiter of good sense and justice, has already christened the Tower of Babel."

Certainly, the comments mentioned above were some of the softer ones. To cast down this tower, it was also branded with, "this truly tragic street lamp," "this belfry skeleton," "this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus," "this high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders," "a half-built factory pipe," and, "a carcass waiting to be fleshed out."
In light of the situation that has been incorporated above, nobody would have fancied that Eiffel tower would attain the status it currently enjoys. It's beyond any sort of doubts that the Eiffel Tower turned out to be France's national symbol and the world's most recognizable icon modern age. Construction of this skyscraper was completed in unbelievable time of 2 years, 2 months and 2 days. The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated, on 31st March 1889; it became world's tallest tower of its era.
Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer, who had specialized in revolutionary steel constructions, is known as the architect of The Eiffel tower. Eiffel Born in Dijon in 1832, did his graduation from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1855. Several years he spent in the South West of France, where he did supervision of work on the great railway bridge in Bordeaux. Afterwards he organized his own set up in 1864 as a "constructor", that was, as a business, specializing in metal structural work.
As a constructor his marvelous career was punctuated with projects like, the Porto viaduct over the river Douro in 1876, the Garabit viaduct in 1884, Pest railway station in Hungary, the dome of the Nice Observatory, and the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty. Undoubtedly it was Eiffel Tower, which took him to the point of culmination.
His work and experience on the building of metal bridges and viaducts gave him the confidence, to think about building a very tall monument in Paris. The framework, that was to have the distinction of being the tallest building, not only in France but also in the world.
In June 1884, the two chief structural engineers of Eiffel's company Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin conceived the design of Eiffel tower. Their idea contained

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