The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel
Tower was built in Paris for the Universal Exhibition of Paris. The tower
project was organized as part of the celebration of the centenary of the French
Revolution.
It was built by Gustave EIFFEL an engineer, a
French industrialist, notably involved in the construction of the Eiffel Tower
in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York. Gustave Eiffel was born in a
modest environment.
The Eiffel
Tower is a symbol of French development .The height of this tower is 324 m with
antennas it weight 10 000 tons. The Eiffel Tower has 3 platforms, to reach the
3rd floor it was necessary to climb 1665 steps. Today, only the first two
platforms are accessible by the stairs. If you wish to access the top floor,
you will have to take the elevator.
Destined to last only 20 years, it
was saved by the scientific experiments and in particularly the first X-ray
transmissions, then telecommunications:
Radio signals from the Tower to the
Pantheon in 1898, military radio in 1903, first public radio broadcast in 1925,
and more recently television.
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