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The Eiffel Tower

This wrought iron lattice Tower was named after the engineer whose company designed the tower. It was open to the public for the first time on May 6, 1889, and you can climb the 1665 steps to the top. Initially they wanted to dismantle the tower in 20 years but by the by then the telegraph had come in to use and due to its height it made an excellent transmitter. Today it is the most visited paid for monument in the world.

French Tour Eiffel, Parisian landmark that is also a technological masterpiece in building-construction history. 
When the French government was organizing the International Exposition of 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution, a competition was held for designs for a suitable monument. More than 100 plans were submitted, and the Centennial Committee accepted that of the noted bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel’s concept of a 300-metre (984-foot) tower built almost entirely of open-lattice wrought iron aroused amazement, skepticism, and no little opposition on aesthetic grounds. When completed, the tower served as the entrance gateway to the exposition.