There are two other estonishing facts:
In 1891 construction work for a 353 metre tall lattice tower, the such called Watkin's tower (
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=41047 ) started. In 1894 work on it was stopped on it for financial reasons as its structure reached just a height of 47 metres and work was never resumed afterwards ( in 1907 the stump was demolished). If it would have been completed, it would be still today the second tallest totally free-standing structure in Western Europe ( after the chimney Endesa Termic in As Pontes, Spain and if one does not count Slovenia to Western Europe).
After 1910 building of tall radio towers started. In 1913 the central mast of Eilvese transmitter with a height of 250 metres was completed (
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=58411 ). It was used as the masts of other large radio stations of those days for VLF-transmission, that is transmitting on frequencies whose corresponding wavelengthes are 10 kilometres and more. From the physical point of view an antenna height of a quater or a half of the used wavelength would be the best choice, but smaller antennas can be also used, if electrical lengthening is used. Nevertheless an antenna, which is longer and uses less electrical lengthening is more efficient, than a shorter one with extensive electrical lengthening.
So it is a bit estonishing that until the erection of Lakihegy tower (
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=10547 ) in 1933 no radio masts taller than Eiffel tower were built!