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Eiffel埃菲尔 　　Eiffel was born in 1832 in Dijon city in the east of France. His father was a civil officer in the army. His mother was an imaginative woman. In the mid-19th century， after collapsing of Napoleon’s Empire， French economy was in a total recession. To move out of poverty， Eiffel’s mother resolutely took the burden of life， deciding to run a coal bunker by herself. So Eiffel was brought up by his grandmother. 　　Eiffel’s grandmother was cautious and kind. It’s with his mother and grandmother’s influence and education that Eiffel was able to think independently， imagine freely at an early age， which laid foundation for him to be an extraordinary engineer. At age 12， Eiffel entered the local royal middle school. At the beginning， his studies was not good， and he couldn’t be admitted to the famous Ecole Polytechnique. 　　But he was not discouraged. At age 20， with outstanding achievements by hard working he finally was admitted to the tech school to train himself an engineers. He rented a single dorm， studied between a table and a stove day and night. It wasn’t long before that he received the diploma of engineer. 　　After graduating from tech school， one of Eiffel’s friends recommended him to work as an engineer in Western Railway Bureau. From then on， Eiffel took his career as a structure engineer and made great contribution to human progress with his talent. 　　In 1860， Eiffel designed and completed famous French Bordeaux Bridge project.The 500-meter-long steel structure was built on 6 piers which went across the river Geelong. The completion of the enormous project made Eiffel well known throughout the engineering field. 　　With Effiel’s devotion to studying and his courage to innovate， by using steel and concrete he freed engineering from the “soil” and “wood”. He made great efforts to design the tower，drawing more than 5，000 paper. These valuable materials as the fruit of the Eiffel’s labor are properly preserved in Paris. 　　Eiffel， who made miracl