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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Gustave Eiffel, Boris Vian, Louis Bleriot, Sam Hocevar, Bouygues, Vedat Tek, Mehdi Bazargan, Andre Chapelon, Guy Lebegue, Jean Fourastie, Celestin Laine, William Le Baron Jenney, Solomon Lefschetz, Jean M. Muller, Soulaymane Kachani, Schlumberger brothers, Jean-Louis Le Moigne, Herve Biausser, Edouard Michelin, Raphael Salem, Armand Peugeot, Edouard Vaillant, Andre Michelin, Driss Ben-Brahim, Rodnay Zaks, Rene Lorin, Henri Gouraud, Anatole Mallet, Charles Maurice Donnay, Georges Leclanche, Emile Levassor, Francois, Vicomte de Curel, Michel Alcan, Edmond Coignet, Bruno Hussar, Pierre Failliot, Rene Panhard, Jean Dionis du Sejour, Alphonse Sagebien, Alfred Belpaire, Henri de Dion, Jules Petiet, Pierre-Georges Latecoere, Benoit Potier. Excerpt: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 - December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: , English: ) was a French structural engineer from the Ecole Centrale Paris, an architect, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is acclaimed for designing the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France. Notable among his other works is the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States. Gustave Eiffel was born French with the surname Bonickhausen in Dijon, Cote-d'Or, France. His Germanic surname was later changed to Eiffel, a sobriquet an ancestor acquired after emigrating, at the beginning of the XVIII century, from the German Eifel region (in Marmagen). During his youth, the two strongest influences on Eiffel were two successful chemists, his uncles Jean-Baptiste Mollerat and Michel Perret. Both men spent a lot of time with young Eiffel, teaching him everything from chemistry and mining to religion and philosophy. Eiffel was extremely clever, but not very studious. While attending high school at Lyc...
