Gustave Eiffel’s Credentials
Season 21
Episode 1
About the Episode
Gustave Eiffel already had several large projects to his name by the time the 1889 World’s Fair was announced. He had engineered Budapest’s railway station and Porto’s Maria Pia Bridge, and was in the midst of completing both the Garabit viaduct in France’s Massif Central and the Statue of Liberty. For Eiffel, building a thousand-foot tower would be a crowning achievement.
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Extras
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An archaeological team recreates the ascent that Khmer kings would have made up the holy mountain.2:08 -
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