BUILDER OF EIFFEL LOWER DEAD.
PARIS, Dec. 28. M. Alexandre Auguste Eiffel, the French engineer who designed and built the Eiffel Tower in 1889, is dood ; aged 91. Though he is best known for his greatest work, tho Eiffel Tower, M* Eiffel leaver a number of other important works to commemorate him, including a great -bridge over the Portuguese river Rouro, the yiadJCt oi Garabit, Canto), and the aerody-, nabic laboratory at Auteuil, France. He also designed the sluices which were, to have been put in the Panama Canal if the French builders had completed the work, a-nd the EiKel Tower, which dominates the whole of Pans, and is by far the highest* artificial structure in the world, being 981 feet' in height. Its base covers on area of 100 metres (about 330 feet) square. The tower was built for the Exposition of 18S9, and has continued to he a lasting source of interest to tourists ; but scientific work of high importance lias been carried on with the facilities afforded by its great elevation. It is an important meteorological observatory, and is also Used in conjunction with a big wireless station.
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Otaki Mail, 7 January 1924, Page 3
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