The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and one of the world famous structure.

The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair celebrated the French Revolution a century. Eiffel originally planned to build the tower in Baecelona, ​​for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall thought strange and expensive, and does not fit the city. After the rejection of Plan Barcelona, ​​Eiffel send the draft to those responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined together 18,083 Embedded metal parts (a pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million nails, the structural form by Maurice Koechelin. The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took care, including the use of mobile gantry, rails and screens, and in this case only one who died.

This tower received some criticism from the public when it was built, calling it intrusive eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris.

Eiffel had a permit the tower to stand for 20 years, which means it must be dismantled in 1909, when ownership transferred to the City of Paris. The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower that easily tear) but after this tower proved extremely profitable in terms of communication, the tower was left standing after the permit expires. For example, the military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the Battle of the Marne, and a battle was a victory monomen

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