文档介绍：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 mended 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.
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