Who is Gustave Eiffel?

Gustave Eiffel was born as Bonickhausen dit Eiffel on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, France.  His reputation as an architect and civil engineer got him more projects and he established his own workshop in 1866 and undertook projects in different countries. One such project was the all-metal construction of the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chile. Various parts of the project were manufactured in France and shipped to the site to be assembled there. His most noted masterpiece that bears his name and went on to become one of his prominent works is the ‘Eiffel Tower’. Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin first made a design of the tower that would become the centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The work of the tower began in 1887 which included 2,500,000 rivets and 12,000 other components, all designed in such a way that when assembled would handle wind pressure.  He passed away on December 27, 1923.

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