The Eiffel Tower should have been dismantled after the Universal Exposition of 1889 for which it had been built; the Eiffel Tower has especially been saved by telegraphy.
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The first crash tests were performed with cadavers.
In order to study the effects of accidents on the human body, first tests were indeed performed with cadavers from people who had donated their body to science.
Source:
Wikipedia – Crash test dummy
