Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

 

The Eiffel Tower is one of the great man-made structures of the world. The first image of the tower was created by Maurice Khellen and Emile Noukoye, respectively the head of the office of studies and head of Eiffel modalities and its partners. They thought to make something to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of the French revolution. They thought also to make it a landmark and tourist site. Construction work started on Jan 26, 1887 and ended on March 31, 1889. The construction work took exactly 2 years, 2 months and 5 days. The cost of building the Eiffel Tower is £260,000 (7.4 million francs). It opened to the public on May 6, 1889. The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, France, and the exact location is next to the Seine River and it is located on the Champ de Mars; the coordinates are: 48.8583°N 2.2945°E. The Eiffel tower is still in existence and it’s one of the most famous tourist sites around the world. This tower is one of the favorite destinations in the summer for the Middle East people.

On the base of the Eiffel Tower they used the concrete, but the body of the tower is made of wrought iron. Also they used the glass on the first floor. the weight of the materials used on the tower was 7300 tons of iron and 2700 tons of other materials approximately. The materials came from French factories and were transported to the site of the tower by road and rail. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel died on 27 December 1923 at his home in Paris for 91 years. The Gustave Eiffel company which actually built the tower with the help of a French government subsidy of less than 25% of the totally cost. The labour forces on the construction of the Eiffel Tower probably were French. One of the problems encountered on the project was the strike of workers in order to raise wages depending on the height of the workplace. Eiffel raised wages, but not like the requirement of the workers; he raised all the wages ignoring the condition of the wage depending on the height of the workplace. The second problem encountered by the tower is a rust problem and this problem is handled through regular maintenance every 7 years.

The importance of the Eiffel Tower is it’s a multi-use tower. I will mention some uses of it but not all of them. The first use of the tower was in 1889 using the peak of the tower as an observation station for the measurement of the wind speed. In 1906 the tower was the first try to use it for broadcasting, then they started to use it actually for broadcasting in 1920. The second step for broadcasting from the tower was the television broadcasting and this started actually in 1957. The third use for it was for many scientists’ trials like related to weather or the free fall of objects or monitoring. The next usage for the tower was as a restaurant; some restaurants in the tower help the tourists when they want to enjoy views of the charming Parisian landscape while they are eating food. The final and very important use is for tourists by putting France on the top of global tourist destinations. Also this tower is one of the very famous buildings around the world till now; that’s one of reasons to encourage the people to go to Paris and enjoy the vacation. Finally when the economy starts improving by the influx of tourists for sure it will be one of the very important things for the government, so the government should take care of the this place and keep improving it to keep the number of tourists increasing.

 

 

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