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Gustave Eiffel

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best known for the Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. After…

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business · French civil engineer (1832–1923) · civil engineer · architect · entrepreneur · engineer · general contractor · military flight engineer · also Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel

Born 15 December 1832 · Died 27 December 1923 · Q20882

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Won Langley Gold Medal (1913).
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Awarded Fourneyron prize (1912).
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2022· 1 entry

Aug 24, 2022Reported claimRated False · AFP Fact Check

AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Image shows rejected designs of the Eiffel Tower” False.

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2010· 1 entry

2010Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

To the decision to list Eiffel's Bordeaux bridge as a French Historical Monument

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1937· 1 entry

1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

(originally designed and built by Schneider et Cie et Letellier in 1899)

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1923· 1 entry

Dec 27, 1923Documented record86% confidence

Died 1923-12-27.

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1913· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1913Documented record84% confidence

Won Langley Gold Medal (1913).

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1913Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Eiffel was awarded the Samuel P

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1912· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1912Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Fourneyron prize (1912).

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And 1911, on the resistance of the air in connection with aviation, are especially valuable

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1905· 1 entry

1905Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Building his first wind tunnel there in 1909

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1889· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1889Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1889).

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Jan 1, 1889Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1889–1889).

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1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And also built a weather station at his house in Sèvres

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1887· 1 entry

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Eiffel became involved with the French effort to construct a canal across the Panama Isthmus

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1886· 1 entry

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Eiffel also designed the dome for the Astronomical Observatory in Nice

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1881· 1 entry

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Eiffel was contacted by Auguste Bartholdi who was in need of an engineer to help him to realise the Statue of Liberty

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1879· 1 entry

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The partnership with Seyrig was dissolved, and the company was renamed the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel

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1878· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1878Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1878).

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1878Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Firmly established his reputation as one of the leading engineers of the time

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1875· 1 entry

1875Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Eiffel et Cie were given two important contracts, one for the Budapest Nyugati railway station for the Vienna to Budapest railway and the other for a bridge over the river Douro in Portugal

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1866· 1 entry

1866Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was given a contract to oversee the construction of 33 locomotives for the Egyptian government, a profitable but undemanding job in the course of which he visited Egypt, where he visited the Suez Canal which was being

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1865· 1 entry

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Eiffel, seeing no future there, resigned and set up as an independent consulting engineer

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1857· 1 entry

1857Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a 500-metre (1,60

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1832· 1 entry

Dec 15, 1832Documented record86% confidence

Born 1832-12-15.

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