Gustave Eiffel was born in 1832 in Côte-d'Or, France and died in 1923 in Paris, France. He was an architect who started building bridges and progressed to creating the famous Eiffel Tower. Although he was born in Côte-d'Or, he grew up in Paris. Her mother owned a charcoal distribution business that she inherited from her parents. At the time of his birth, his father was an administrator in the French army but soon joined his mother. The family found the name Eiffel from the Eifel mountains from which they came. The family name was not officially changed to Eiffel until 1880. Due to his mother's work, he lived with his grandmother, but always remained close to his mother. Catherine Eiffel sold the company in 1843 and retired with the profits. Eiffel attends the Lycée Royal de Dijon and thinks that all of his classes, except history and literature, are boring and a waste of time. An important figure was his uncle, Jean-Baptiste Mollerat, who invented a process for distilling vinegar. He taught young Eiffel everything, from chemistry and mining to theology and philosophy. Eiffel went to the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris to prepare for entrance exams to the engineering schools he wanted to attend. Because his results were not good enough, Eiffel was unable to go to the Ecole Polytechnique, so he went to the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris. He chose to specialize in chemistry in his second year. He graduated 13th out of 80 candidates in 1855. His first job after graduation was working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law who ran a foundry. Eiffel then worked as a paid private secretary for the railway engineer Charles Nepveu. Shortly after, Nepveu's company went bankrupt...... middle of paper ......everyone joined him to build it, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate from the Polytechnikum in Zurich, and Emile Nouguier, who previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro Bridge. The design of the Eiffel Tower was imagined by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. Construction of the foundations began in 1887. The tower was completed in 1889 and was used as the entrance arch to the World's Fair that year. In 1913, Eiffel received the Samuel P. Langley Aerodrome Medal from the Smithsonian Institute for his research on air resistance as it relates to aviation. He also built a weather station in his house in Sèvres. Eiffel died on December 27, 1923 while listening to Beethoven's 5th Andante Symphony, at his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris, France. He was buried in the family grave at the Levallois-Perret cemetery...