About Eiffel Tower

About Eiffel Tower

In 1889, it was the opening of the Eiffel Tower, one of the main tourist attractions in the world, and included the story of the construction of this tower are many situations in exotic, it was scheduled to take place the tower for 20 years only then are then removed, but the use tower broadcast, led to the continuation and survival until this is our time. 

He has Gustave Eiffel designed the tower to be a distinctive gateway to the International Exhibition in Paris in 1889, which approved the centenary of the French Revolution, where the French showed the technical capacity at the time. The total cost of building the tower build time about 7,800,000 "golden French francs", many of which were recovered from ticket sales this exhibition. 

In 1964 was recorded tower on the list of historical monuments for the city of Paris, to begin construction work in January 26, 1887, and lasted for 26 months with the participation of nearly 50 engineers and 300 workers; where they were in the first five months building the foundations While it took to build the tower and twenty-one months following , to finish all the work in the March 31, 1889. 

The tower was officially opened on May 6, 1889, and is the period in which the construction of the 1887-1889 record, and given the tools available in that era and compare it with the accuracy and magnitude, which distinguish them this construction. 

18.038 tower consists of a piece of steel and 2.5 million total nail and weighs 10,100 tons, which is based to four columns composed with each base dimensions of 125 * 125 meters of any area of ​​15,625 square meters. Built in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe in France, the aim of the centenary of the French Revolution in 1889. 

I have realized Gustave Eiffel designed the tower and his aides that the most important thing Sewagham to build the highest tower in the world then is wind pressure; therefore conducted many experiments to find out the ability of the four pillars of the tower to face the wind and internal forces resulting from them. 

In Gustave Eiffel's work in the room and with the airway pressure device being experiments on the tower models. 

Use approximately 7,300 tons of metals in the construction of the tower was also used 10,000 tons of material is required Almaadina tower approximately 50 to 60 tons of dyeing every seven years to protect him from rust. 

I've met with the tower while construction scathing criticism from the public and the newspapers were full of letters objecting to its construction and said the novelist Guy de Mobassan and who was one of the main opponents of the tower when asked why keep the lunch in a restaurant the tower? "It's the only place where you can not see the tower from him." 

Since the opening of the Eiffel Tower in 1889 was visited by more than 200 million visitors from all over the world to occupy and all the well-deserved first place in the most visited monuments around the world.