French civil engineer (1832 to 1923) whose firm designed and built the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris and contributed to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
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A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct.
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