The French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) is best known for the Eiffel Tower, which he built in Paris in 1889. Born in Dijon, Gustave Eiffel studied at the École Polytechnique and the École Centrale in Paris. He designed...

1832-1923 French engineer who pioneered steel bridge designs and constructed the tower named after him. After chemistry studies, he worked as a railway engineer and later headed his own engineering firm. In 1885 he designed the internal metal structure...

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; in French pronounced [ɛfɛl], in English usually pronounced /ˈaɪfəl/) was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for...

For decades, engineers and mathematicians have wondered what Gustave Eiffel was thinking when he designed his famous tower. A math professor at Michigan Technological University in Houghton and an engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder believe they may have come...

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was an engineering innovator and a major contributor to 19th century engineering. His place in history is secured by the now-famous Paris landmark, that tapering, modular black wrought iron structure rising almost 1000 feet near the Seine River. Although Eiffel...

Today is Saturday, March 31, the 90th day of 2007. There are 275 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 31, 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.On this date:In 1880,...

The Dutch basketball team Eiffel Towers acquired an emblem Monday worthy of its name.Team president Erik Kurvers purchased a 14-foot piece of a winding iron staircase that once stood in the Eiffel Tower for $219,390 — five times the asking price, said Sylvie Robaglia, spokeswoman...