Eiffel Tower | France, 1880’s

By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the territory of France was more or less as we see it today. The Industrial Revolution was a period of progression in manufacturing processes that occurred in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. One of the major breakthroughs of this period was a drastic improvement in the production of iron, an incredibly strong metal that had major implications for fields such as engineering, exemplified best by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Left: Jorge Royan on WikiCommons & Right: Jean-Philippe Fourier from Pixabay

In stark contrast to other architectural styles at the time, the Eiffel Tower was constructed between 1887 to 1889 and consists solely of a gigantic cast-iron lattice frame. It stands 324 meters tall and at the time of construction was the tallest building in the world, almost doubling the size of its predecessor, the Washington Monument. The Tower was named after its engineer, Gustave Eiffel who also built the iron frame for the Statue of Liberty in New York.

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