• The tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel.

  • The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance to
    the World's Fair.

  • Three hundred workers assembled 18,038 pieces of iron using
    two and a half million rivets to put it together.

  • Many people did not like the tower when it was first built.
A drawing of the original tower
::The Original Tower::
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Gustave Eiffel
La Tour Eiffel
By Alexander Skowronski of Terrill Middle School
Scotch Plains, NJ