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Eiffel’s long and eventful life and career

Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon in 1832. After training as an engineer, he worked for several years supervising work on the great railway bridge in Bordeaux. 

He set up his own company, specialising in metal structural work, in 1864 and constructed hundreds of different metal structures around the ...

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