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The family adopted the name Eiffel as a reference to the Eifel mountains in the region from which it had come.
After graduation, Eiffel had hoped to get a job in his uncle's works in Dijon, but a family dispute made this impossible.
The members included Jean-Baptiste Krantz, Henri Dion and Léon Molinos, both of whom had known Eiffel for a long time: their report was favorable, and Eiffel got the job.
To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.
This had been patented by Eiffel in 1881.
The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
Eiffel had calculated that this would be satisfactory until they approached halfway to the first level: accordingly work was stopped for the purpose of erecting a wooden supporting scaffold.
By June construction had reached the second level platform, and on Bastille Day this was used for a fireworks display, and Eiffel held a celebratory banquet for the press on the first level platform.
Eiffel had been working on the project for little more than a year when the company suspended payments of interest on 14 December 1888, and shortly afterwards was put into liquidation.
Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.
Eiffel had meteorological measuring equipment placed on the tower in 1889, and also built a weather station at his house in Sèvres.
The Eiffel Tower had been built for the 1889 Paris Exposition, and was not intended to be permanent.
In 1911, Pound introduced two other poets to the Eiffel Tower group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle ( who had started signing her work H. D.
Williams, who was based in the United States, had not participated in any of the discussions of the Eiffel Tower group.
In 1980, students from the Mecosta-Osceola Career Center in Big Rapids built a replica of the Eiffel Tower out of metal frames from WPA workers ' beds that had been stored in barns.
Pound had already begun to meet with other poets at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho.
Champ de Mars was used as a filming location in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, in which Bond ( played for the last time by Roger Moore ) drove a Renault 11 taxi which he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a mysterious assassin later revealed to be Mayday ( Grace Jones ).
The Standard Athletic Club had been formed ten years earlier by English workers who had moved to the country to help build the Eiffel Tower.
Eiffel 65's long anticipated fourth album, under the working title Crash Test, had already finished production by the time of Maury's and Jeffrey's departure from Bliss Corporation.
Bliss Corporation had confirmed that a new Eiffel 65 line-up would make their debut in summer of 2007 but then the debut was postponed.

Eiffel and École
The Champ de Mars (; ) is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast.

Eiffel and decided
Since the name " Eiffel 65 " was a property of Bliss Corporation, the duo decided to continue under a new name, as announced in June 2006, Bloom 06.
Unlike its sister parks, Kings Island and Kings Dominion, it was decided early that the centrepiece of the park would not be a replica of Paris's famous Eiffel Tower.

Eiffel and was
* 1995: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre was held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Director of Documentation for what was then the Société nouvelle d ' exploitation de la tour Eiffel ( SNTE ), Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, " It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve.
Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.
Eiffel was originally developed by Eiffel Software, a company founded by Bertrand Meyer.
Sather, for example, was originally based on Eiffel but has since diverged, and now includes several functional programming features.
The standard was developed by ECMA International, which first approved the standard on 21 June 2005 as Standard ECMA-367, < cite > Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language </ cite >.
The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.
The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( ) ( 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923 ) was a French civil engineer and architect.
Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, in the Côte-d ' Or department of France, the first child of Alexandre and Catherine Eiffel.
Although the family always used the name Eiffel, Gustave's name was registered at birth as Bönickhausen, and was not formally changed to Eiffel until 1880.
The business was successful enough for Catherine Eiffel to sell the business in 1843 and retire on the proceeds.
Eiffel was not a studious child, and thought his classes at the Lycée Royal in Dijon boring and a waste of time, although in his last two years, influenced by his teachers for history and literature, he began to study seriously, so that he managed to gain his baccalauréats in humanities and science.
This was the year that Paris hosted the first World's Fair, and Eiffel was bought a season ticket by his mother
Some of Nepveu's businesses were then acquired by the Compagnie Belge de Matériels de Chemin de Fer: Nepveu was appointed the managing director of the two factories in Paris, and offered Eiffel a job as head of the research department.
Eiffel was initially given the responsibility of assembling the metalwork and eventually took over the management of the entire project from Nepvau, who resigned in March 1860.
Following the completion of the project on schedule Eiffel was appointed as the principal engineer of the Compagnie Belge.
The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.

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