THE death is announced, at the age of ninety-one years, of M. Gustave Eiffel, whose name will always be associated with the gigantic tower named after him and built by him in Paris in 1889.

In Gustave Eiffel’s lifetime alone ... For the highest level, Eiffel had called upon a former engineering school classmate and inventor, Félix Léon Edoux, to devise a system that could ...