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That a tower 1000 feet tall was an ambitious specification, was an understatement. The world’s tallest structure, the Washington Monument, was only 555 feet high and had required 36 years to complete when it opened in 1884. The 1889 Exposition Committee had procrastinated so long, a scant two years remained in which to construct the tallest tower ever conceived and for which no guiding precedent existed. To anyone but the supremely confident Eiffel, the undertaking would have appeared foolhardy, questions of the basic wisdom of creating such an eccentric structure aside. But, Eiffel had built a career on his expertise in metallurgy and an exceptional ability to plan and innovate. He had become Europe’s master metal builder at a time when increasingly, the engineering profession was put on a more scientific basis and engineers were able to realize progressively more complex monumental and vital works.
