180 years ago, French engineer Gustave Eiffel was born

Dijon (France)/Prague - The masterpiece of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel, born on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, is the iron observation tower in the Champ de Mars in Paris. The versatile technician created it on the occasion of the centenary of the French Revolution and the World's Fair in 1889 as a marvel of contemporary modern technology. It bears his name and, with its height of 300 meters, was the tallest structure in the world until 1930 when the first skyscraper on Manhattan, the Chrysler Building, was ceremonially opened.
     However, Eiffel was definitely not a man of a single structure. He designed bridges and viaducts, factory, exhibition, and station halls (for example, the station in Budapest), churches, locks in the Panama Canal, lighthouses, and gas storage facilities. He is also the author of the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty, which stands tall over New York Harbor, and the rotating dome of the observatory in Nice. The "wizard of steel," who, after retiring, focused primarily on meteorological and aerodynamic research and radiotelegraphy, died less than two weeks after his 91st birthday on December 28, 1923, in Paris.

Market in Dijon, the birthplace of Gustave Eiffel