And it was Koechlin who sketched the original concept of the Eiffel Tower, drawing from his training in visualizing forces. The same tools that Culmann developed and used to understand bone were ...

An assistant of Eiffel's did a rough sketch—Eiffel was terrible at drawing. The sketch showed a tower that looked pretty much like a pylon on a railway viaduct, or maybe an oil derrick.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Gustave Eiffel may be best known for the Parisian tower that bears his name ... set of Eiffel’s original schematic drawings for Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ...