Origins and Construction of the Eiffel Tower

Origins and Construction of the Eiffel Tower





Key figures



The construction schedule

Works kick-offJanuary 1887Start of the pillars' mounting1st July 1887First floor achievement1st April 1888Second floor achievement14th August 1888Top and assembly achievement31st March 1889

The Design of the Eiffel Tower



Bolting the joint of two crossbowmen.(c): Collection Tour Eiffel

The wager was to "study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars with a square base, 125 metres across and 300 metres tall". Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel, an entrepreneur, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, both engineers, and Stephen Sauvestre, an architect, that was accepted.





In order to make the project more acceptable to public opinion, Nouguier and Koechlin commissioned the architect Stephen Sauvestre to work on the project's appearance.



A quite different first edition







The construction