CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Eiffel Tower was built to be one the main attractions at the Paris World’s Fair in 1889. That year, the World’s Fair covered the entire Champ de Mars in Paris and its focus was the vast constructions in iron and steel that were the great industrial advancement of that time.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first digging work started on the 26th January 1887. On the 31st March 1889, the Tower had been finished in record time – 2 years, 2 months and 5 days – and was established as a veritable technical feat. Le journaliste Émile Goudeau visitant le chantier au début de 1889 en décrit ainsi le spectacle.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Universal Exposition of 1889 (Exposition Universelle de 1889) was a highly successful international exhibition and one of the few world’s fairs to make a profit. Its central attraction was the Eiffel Tower, a 300-meter high marvel of iron by Gustave Eiffel.

Detailed explanation-4: -Similarly, the Eiffel Tower was the world’s tallest structure from 1889, when it was built, but not the tallest building. The skyscraper was invented in Chicago in 1884 when the Home Insurance Building was constructed using a steel frame with curtain walls instead of load-bearing walls.