in place until the 1960s), the Eiffel Tower can be spotted from almost anywhere in the French capital. Its wrought-iron lattice construction—which was actually a mathematical choice, not an ...
Olivia Young is a journalist and slow travel advocate. Her favorite travel days usually involve vegan food, wildlife sightings, and an occasional liability waiver. The Eiffel Tower — aka la Tour ...
THE tallest bridge in the world towering 2,000 feet above a gorge is set to open later this year. China’s Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou province is a whopping nine times higher ...
The construction of the Eiffel Tower began in Paris in 1887, in advance of the 1889 World's Fair. Gustave Eiffel's tower, which was actually designed by his senior engineers Maurice Koechlin and ...
It required 2 lakh metric tons of steel, which is 30 times more than what was used in the construction of the Eiffel Tower. Additionally, a whopping 20 lakh cubic meters of concrete were used ...