Eiffel Tower

General Information:

Location: Paris

Age: 123 years (in 2013)

Date of begin construction work: January 26, 1887

Date of the end of the construction work:
March 31, 1889

Construction period: 1887-1889 two years and two months and three days

Inauguration Date: May 6, 1889

The total weight: 10,100 tons            

Number of stairs: 1,665

Height: 324 meters

Number of visitors in the first year (1889): nearly 2 million

The annual number of visitors in the year (2005): 6 million

Number of visitors for 116 years (1889-2005): more than 215 million visits

Number of floors: 3 floors

Number of lifts: 7 lift

Record numbers: the Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the world since 1889 until 1930

The cost of building the tower construction time: about 7,800,000 French francs golden

Designer: Gustave Eiffel designed the tower to be a distinctive gateway to the International 1889 exhibition in Paris, which approved the centenary of the French Revolution.

Edison's visit: on the tenth of September 1889, Thomas Edison visited the tower and took place in the guest book "to the engineer Eiffel tower congratulate you on the big courage in this beautiful edifice building and engineering this miracle has excelled and obtained the respect of all the engineers of the world"

Restaurants:

-          First floor: restaurant "Altitude 95"

-          Second Floor: Restaurant "Le Jules Verne" (and has its own elevator in the southern corner of the tower)

Use:

-          Monitoring Tower

-          Radio broadcast tower

Photos:

Built the Eiffel Tower in front of the Arc de Triomphe in France in order to occasion the centenary of the French Revolution in 1889

Gustave Eiffel in a room work with the device being airway pressure experiments on the face of the wind tower models and the resulting internal forces.

Stages of construction of the Eiffel Tower.

Visitors tower on the first floor.