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Dating from 1889 and designed under the supervision of Gustave Eiffel, the staircase connected the second and third floors of the iconic tower in Paris.
Two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, drafted the first version in 1884. At first, Eiffel wasn’t impressed by their sketches—he thought they looked too plain. But once ...