The Eiffel Tower The Symbol Of Paris

T he Eiffel Tower is an iron       level and the snackbar on the      tower built beside the          third level. The Jules Verne       river Seine in Paris.           Restaurant even has one star in    Originally intended as a              the Michelin guide.                structure to commemorate the                                             French Revolution, nobody could       The Eiffel Tower is 300 metres     have guessed that 100 years later     high, without the 21 metre         The Eiffel Tower would become the     antenna which is mounted on the    symbol of Paris itself.               top, and in order to get to the                                          top visitors must climb 1665       The Eiffel Tower has its name         steps. The number of steps has     after the engineer Alexandre          varied over the years with         Gustave Eiffel. For two years,        different renovations. Luckily     1887-1889, three hundred steel        visitors can use one of the many   workers struggled to join             elevators in order to get to the   together 18038 pieces of steel by     top.                               using 2,5 million steel bolts.                                           When thinking about                   By far the tallest structure in    safety-measurements in the 19th       Paris, the tip may bend away from  century it is remarkable that         the vertical by as much as 18cm    only one worker died during the       (7in) due to expansion of its      construction of the tower.            7,300 metric tons of iron because                                        of heat from the sun. Warming by   In all they used 7300 tons of         the sun heats one side more than   steel to form the tower's three       the other. That's all the more     distinct levels. Those levels         remarkable since wind shear is     currently house two restaurants       usually the major problem with     and a snackbar. Altitude 95 is        tall structures. But, the          one the first level, the Jules        engineering is so well-thought     Verne restaurant on the second        out that the strongest winds       cause no more than five inches of     visitors can se 67 km into the     deflection.                           French landscape, it is truly a                                          remarkable sight. If it is not     In the beginning The Eiffel Tower     appealing to stand in the long     met a lot of resistance, there        line , which you must do in order  were widespread petitions to have     to enter the tower, it is very     it torn down by some who              nice just to stand beside or       considered it ugly and intrusive.     beneath the tower and enjoy it.    That might have succeeded if it       It is also a good idea to take a   hadn't been in use as an antenna      picnic in the nearby park.         for the then-leading-edge                                                technology of telegraphy. In 1909     To visit the tower, take the       a permanent underground radio         Metro - the Paris subway - to the  center was built and since 1957       Trocadero station. Then, walk      it's been used as a transmission      from the Palais de Chaillot to     tower for both FM radio and           the Seine. From there you can't    television. The tower has even        miss it.                           been part of scientific research.                                        In 1910, Wulf used it to make                                            measurements that resulted in the      without a visit to The Eiffel         align="center">                    Tower, it is a must. From the top      About the Author: If you are interested in more articles about Paris you can read the cityguide at airlines.no, if you want to book trips from and to Scandinavia you can do it at finn reise on our webpage. Pages are both in norwegian and english. Published At: www.Isnare.com