2. It was designed and built by the firm Eiffel et Compagnie. The tower’s main designer was one of Eiffel’s employees, senior engineer Maurice Koechlin. Engineer Emile Nouguier and the head of ...

Ranulf got the guards drunk and abseiled out the window. Simples! You can find out more fun facts about the Tower of London here on the Historic Royal Palaces' website.

More than 56,000 people have been pounding the streets of the capital in this year’s London Marathon. The event could set a ...

China will open the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in June, becoming the world's highest bridge, drastically reducing travel ...

Despite their city's obvious need to expand, a number of San Franciscans opposed Joseph Strauss' quest to build the Golden Gate Bridge ... the unfinished south tower at the time of a June ...

The Silvertown Tunnel will be the first new road crossing east of Tower Bridge since the Queen Elizabeth II bridge – part of the Dartford Crossing – opened in October 1991. Failure to pay the ...

March 31 is celebrated as Eiffel Tower Day every year to honour the tower's inaugural. On this day in 1889, the skyscraper was revealed to the public. Here are some random facts about the Eiffel ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters includes information ... with examples from each of the four countries that make up the UK. Tower Bridge, in the capital city London, is a landmark ...

On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower opened to the public ... Eiffel also worked in the early 1880s on the Garabit Viaduct, a bridge in France’s mountainous Massif Central region that was ...