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Description and history of the tower.
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| The Eiffel tower, was built
at the time of the World
Fairs of Paris in 1889 and the centenary of the French
Revolution. The construction of the Tower was undertaken
in 1887 and it was inaugurated in March 1889.. The
genuine inventors of the Tower are two engineers of the team
Eiffel, Emile Noguier and Maurice Larchevêque. They establish
the plans with the architect Henri Sauvestre .
For the engineers, it was a question of proposing a pylon
of 984 feet (300 meters). The architect redrewed the project
by giving him his current form, with its arches and its livable
platforms . The history kept the prestige of the realization
only to the profit of Gustave Eiffel whose merit was to deposit
the patent (1884), then to give his approval for the realization
. When it engaged in the project of the tower, the company
Eiffel had already a consequent know-how in the construction
of metal works : the railway
station of Budapest, the
frame statue of Freedom in New York, a bridge
on Douro in Portugal, and the viaduct
of Garabit. On January 28, 1887 began the building
of the tower
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The
assembly of the tower ended on March 30, 1889. The tower
will be lighted by 90.000 gas burners (!), replaced by 4000
incandescent lamps, in 1900. In 1957, a TV antenna
is added to the top, carrying the height with 1063 feet
(324 meters) . Some figures:
the cost of construction was of 7.400.000 francs. During
the World Fair of 1889, the receipts were 6.500.000 F. The
subsidy of the town of Paris was of 1.500.000 francs
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total duration of work was 2 years, 2 months and 5 days.
The number of workers necessary to assemble the tower was
of 121, and we have to to add the 326 workers which worked
within the Eiffel company. One needed 18.000 different
parts, assembled by 2.500.000 rivets including 1.050.846
posed on the building site. The tower have 1665 steps. The
weight of the tower was at the time of 7.112 tons .
When the weather allows it, the limits from the point of
view are 37 miles (60 kilometers) to north, 43,5 mi (70km)
in the west, 34,2 mi (55km) towards the south and 40,4 mi
(65 km) in the east
(Conversion
table) - Eiffel
Tower seen on Google Map
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The Eiffel
during the universal exposition of 1889
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Tower and Trocadero 1900
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The restaurant of the
Tower ( universal exposition of 1889)
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The (exposition universelle
de 1889)
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La tour Eiffel vue du
pont Alexandre III
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La tour Eiffel
et la statue dela Liberté
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Eiffel tower on her
feet
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The Eiffel Tower durong
the World Fair in 1889
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Paris sight from Eiffel
Tower
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Top of the tower
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The tower from a plane
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Reflections of the tower
on water
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The tower sight of in-low
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The lower parts of
the old lady
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One of the 4 pillars
of the Tower
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Fireworks on Eiffel
Tower - vidéo
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Flashover Eiffel tower
on 14 juillet 2005
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The scintillating Tower
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14th of july 2007
concert in front of Eiffel Tower : 600 000 people!
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Fireworks on
Eiffel tower on july 2007
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The tower during the
world rugby cup 2007
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Trocadero seen
from the Tower
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Have
a look over
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Art
painters : Paris
by Painters - Redhair
by painters Handcrafts
Basketry
- Beading
- Dolls
&
bears
- Drawing
- General
sites - Marquetry
- Origami,
paper -
Painting
- Pottery,
ceramic -
Puppets
- Scapbooking
Do
it Yourself Air
conditioning -
Bathroom,
kitchen, toilets -
Cleaning,
stain removal -
Doors,
windows - Electricity
- Flooring
- Furniture
- Heating,
chimney, fireplace -
Insulation
- Outdoor
: shelters,patio, swimming pool
- Painting
- Plumbing
- Roofs
and decks - Walls,
ceiling -
Wood,
woodworking Sewing
Costumes
- Crochet
patterns -
Cross
Stitched -
Design
- Embroidery
- Knitting
- Patchwork
- Quilting
- Sewing
and patterns
- Weathing
Gardening/plants
Fruits - Flowers
- Plants
- Trees
- Vegetables
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...to see
