Mr Plaud said: 'For eight years, I've always thought that I was building the tallest matchstick structure ... who created a 6.53 meter tall model of the Eiffel Tower in 2009.

Richard Plaud said he spent eight years crafting a 23.6-foot model of the ... "The matchstick Eiffel Tower is finally recognised as the tallest matchstick structure in the world 🏆 Thank ...

Earlier this week, the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower — made from ... building the tallest matchstick structure," he told the news agency.

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. A Frenchman spent eight years building a giant matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower, and he may have used the wrong matchsticks to set a world record. Richard ...

The tower was actually named after him as his name was Gustave Eiffel. Plaud said that he was hoping to share the structure at the upcoming Paris Olympics, Sky News reported. However, the ...

The Guinness Book of World Records awarded the man who built a nearly 24-foot Eiffel Tower out of hundreds ... 700,000 matches to create the tallest structure in the world, Sky News reported.

Specialists have constructed an incredibly elaborate software model ... the Eiffel Tower Operating Company, to gather more data about the strengths and weaknesses of the iconic structure.

An American engineer has produced a mathematical model ... Tower that was derived from French engineer Gustave Eiffel's writings regarding his own fears about the effects of wind on such a structure.