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.
This
structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance to
Exposition, World''s Fair that celebrated the French Revolution a
century. Actually
planning to build the Eiffel tower in Baecelona, for the Universal
Exhibition of 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall
thought strange and expensive, and does not fit with the city. After
the rejection of Plan of Barcelona, Eiffel send the draft to the
party 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 May 6. Three
hundred workers joined together 18,083 of iron unders (a pure form of
structural iron), using two and a half million of nails, in the form of
structural by Maurice Koechelin. The
risk of accident is very great, to modern skyscrapers the tower is
unusual open without the middle level except the two platforms. However,
because Eiffel took care, including use of the moving pulley block,
auxiliary rails and screens, and in this case only one who died.
The tower is getting criticism from the public when it is built, calling it disturbing eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with letters of criticism from the art community in Paris.
Eiffel
tower standing licensed 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 is easy to tear down) but after this tower
proved extremely profitable in terms of communication, the tower was
left standing after the permit expires. For
example, the military uses it to arrange a taxi Paris on the front
lines during the First Battle of the Marne, and the battle was a
victory monomen