The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Seine in Paris. Originally intended as a structure reminiscent of the French Revolution, nobody would have known that 100 years later, the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris itself became.
The Eiffel Tower has its name after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. In the two years, three hundred steel workers tried 1887-1889 18 038 pieces of steel to be connected by 2.5 million steel bolts. When talking about safety-measurements in 19 century is noteworthy that only one worker died during the construction of the tower.
In all 7300 tonnes of steel using three different levels of the tower to form. Those levels currently house two restaurants and a snack. Altitude 95 is one of the first instance, by Jules Verne restaurant on the second level and the snack on the third level. Jules Verne Restaurant even has a star in the Michelin Guide.
The Eiffel Tower is 300 meters high, 21 meters without an antenna on the top and located at the top visitors must climb 1665 steps. Number of steps has changed over the years with various renovations. Luckily, visitors can enjoy one of the many a lift to get to the top.
By far the highest structure in Paris, to the point of a vertical bend to about 18 cm (7in) due to the expansion of 7300 tons of iron, because the heat of the sun. Heat from the sun one side over another. It is even more remarkable since wind shear is usually a big problem with high design. But the technique is so well thought that the strongest winds will be more than five centimeters deflection caused.
At the beginning of the Eiffel Tower with a lot of resistance, there were widespread petitions to have destroyed as people who are ugly and intrusive. It might have been had he not used as an antenna for the then-advanced technology of telegraphy. In 1909 he was a permanent underground radio center since 1957 and this building has been used as a transmission tower for both FM radio and television. The tower is even a part of scientific research. In 1910, it used Wulf measurements that led to the discovery of cosmic radiation it.
The Eiffel tower, the world’s tallest structure until 1930, a record surpassed the Chrysler Building in New York.
Visit to Paris is complete without visiting the Eiffel Tower, it is required. From the top of the visitors, 67 km from the French countryside, it is truly a remarkable sight. If no appeal to the state in a long line, you must do to the tower to give up, it is very nice, just next to or below the tower and enjoy it stand. It is also a good idea, to picnic in a nearby park.
Visit to the Tower, take the Metro – Paris subway – to the Trocadero station. Then, walk to the Palais de Chaillot to the Seine. From here you can not miss it.
This article was written by Sebastian Sikkerneq Hoel, who used to travel http://www articles to write. offer. No, both in Norwegian and English.
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Eiffel Tower – the symbol of France
July 3rd, 2010 No Comments
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