From 1880 to 1884 he spent a lot of time on what is sometimes considered a masterpiece, the viaduct of Garabit. In 1879 he worked on the construction of the Viana and Beira Alta bridges in Portugal and in 1880 on the Szeged Bridge in Hungary. He will then make some works for the World Fair of 1878, and the metal structures of Bon Marché, Crédit Lyonnais in Paris, Birrh cellars in Thuir, near Perpignan, etc. In 1875 he designed the Budapest West Station and the following year the Maria Pia Bridge, which spans the Douro River in Portugal. Until 1873 he worked for various viaduct sites in Spain, Romania, Portugal, Egypt, Latin America and on the viaduct of Thouars, on the Brive-Tulle line. In 1866 he left the Pauwels and Company and set up consulting engineer on his own, then, the following year, created his own company with which he created a viaduct of the railway line between Commentry and Gannat. Between 18 he worked on the Bordeaux bridge. It is in this company that he will make his first works of art. He will make his debut there but stayed there only one year since, from 1857 is taken the responsibility of the office of studies of Pauwels and Company. His career began when he was hired by Charles Nepveu, a steam engine and railway equipment builder. His specialty was chemistry, but he turned professionally speaking to metallurgy, a field of activity that his mother knows and in which she has relationships. But he failed and chose to enter the Ecole Centrale de Paris from which he graduated in 1855. In 1850, when he graduated from the baccalaureate, he left Dijon to enter the College Ste Barbe for the preparation of the entrance examination at Polytechnique. He spent his early childhood with his maternal grandmother in the same city, where he will join the school. Gustave Eiffel was born on Decemin Dijon of François-Alexandre Eiffel and Catherine Mélanie Moneuse.

He made his career building iron works of art, an innovative material for the time that allowed the construction of structures that could not be made of stone. Gustave Eiffel is a French engineer and entrepreneur of the late nineteenth century, mainly known for the realization of the tower that bears his name in Paris.

Eiffel bridges