Founded on massive masonry piers, the box girders were inclined inwards at an angle of about fifty degrees to the ground. Each leg was composed of four iron box girders, connected by lattice girders to form, in effect, a skeleton tube about 50 feet square in section.
ONE OF THE FOUR “LEGS” of the Eiffel Tower. The story of its conception and construction is unique in the history of engineering The work of a brilliant and imaginative French engineer, the Eiffel Tower stands to- day, a predominant landmark of Paris, towering nearly 1,000 feet above the banks of the Seine.
