The Eiffel Tower formally opens in Paris in 1889. Built during the Exposition Universelle, it holds the record for the highest man-made tower at 300m for 41 years.
The Eiffel Structure is a wrought-iron lattice tower on Paris's Champ de Mars. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose firm planned and constructed the skyscraper. It was built from 1887 to 1889 as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair and was initially attacked by some of France's finest artists and thinkers for its design, but it has since become a global cultural symbol of France and one of the world's most recognisable monuments. On March 30, 1885, Eiffel presented his ideas to the Société des Ingénieurs Civils; after outlining technical issues and emphasising the tower's practical applications, he concluded his speech by stating that the tower would symbolise France.
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