Gustave Eiffel is best known for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which he constructed between 1887 and 1889. His other notable contributions involve designing the framework of the Statue of Liberty, the Garabit viaduct over the Truyère River, and the movable dome of the observatory in Nice, France. In his later years he became an experimental scientist and researched aerodynamics, meteorology, and radiobroadcasting.
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