Alexandre Gustave Eiffel nickhausen (December 15, 1832  December 27, 1923; French ) was a French structural engineer from the cole Centrale Paris, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, and the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States