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THE death is announced, at the age of ninety-one years, of M. Gustave Eiffel, whose name will always be associated with the gigantic tower named after him and built by him in Paris in 1889. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born on December 15,1832, and was educated as an engineer. His earlier work was concerned mainly with bridge-building on the Continent, and in this, as in all his engineering work, he introduced novel means of construction.
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M. Gustave Eiffel. Nature 113, 21 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113021c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113021c0