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Visiting the Eiffel Tower. A book for those visiting the Eiffel Tower in France, includes History, and facts about the Tower.
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Visiting Eiffel Tower. - Kerry Butters
Visiting Eiffel Tower
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Kerry Butters
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Table of Contents
Facts
History
Artists' protest
Construction
Lifts
Inauguration and the 1889 exposition
Subsequent events
Design
Wind considerations
Accommodation
Passenger lifts
Engraved names
Aesthetics
Maintenance
Tourism
Popularity
Restaurants
Replicas
Communications
FM radio
Digital television
Illumination copyright
Taller structures
Facts
Eiffel - Tower
Tour - Eiffel
Eiffel Tower is located in Paris
Record height - Tallest in the world from 1889 to 1930
Type - Observation tower
Broadcasting – tower
Location - 7th arrondissement, Paris, France
Construction started - 28 January 1887
Completed - 15 March 1889
Opening - 31 March 1889 (128 years ago)
Owner - City of Paris, France
Management Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE)
Height
Architectural - 300 m (984 ft)
Tip - 324 m (1,063 ft)
Top floor - 276 m (906 ft)
Technical details
Floor count - 3
Lifts/elevators - 8
Design and construction
Architect - Stephen Sauvestre
Structural engineer - Maurice Koechlin
Main contractor - Compagnie des Etablissements Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower French: tour Eiffel, pronounced is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Constructed from 1887–89 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of
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