BUILDER OF EIFFEL TOWER DEAD

Shannon News, 4 January 1924, Page 3

BUILDER OF EIFFEL TOWER DEAD

PARIS, Dec. 28. M. Alexandre Auguste Eiffel, the French engineer who designed and built the Eiffel Tower in 1889, is dead; aged 91. Though" he is best known for his greatest work, the Eiffel Tower, M. Eiffel leav.es a number of other important works to commemorate him, including a great bridge- over the Portuguese river Rouio, tihe viad:ml of Garabit, Cantal, and the aerodynabic 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, and the Eiffel Tower, which dominates the whole of Paris, and is by far the highest artificial structure in the. world, being 984 feet in height: Its base covers an area of 100 metres (about 330 feet) square. r The tower was built for the Exposition -(Of 1889, and has continued tp be a lasting source of interest to tourists; but scientific work of high importance (has been carried on with the facilities afforded by its- great eleva-. tion. It is an important meteorological' observatory, and is also used in conjunction with a big wireless station,