Abstract: The family background and education of Gustave Eiffel are out‐lined. Emphasis is placed on the nature of his engineering courses. His early work on the Bordeaux Bridge is the start of an extraordinary career as a structural ...

Abstract: For possibly the first time in the English language, the 24 patents that the writers have been able to discover that bear Eiffel's name are briefly described. They reflect chronologically the engineering interests of Eiffel, ...

Abstract: The experimental failure load of a stayed column has previously been defined, rather arbitrarily, as the load at which the tension in the stays on the concave side goes to zero. Experimental results obtained have necessitated ...