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La Tour Eiffel or the Eifel tower is the most prominent buildings in the city of Paris there are field Champ de Mars beside the River Seine and is known as a symbol of France. The Eiffel Tower was built as a gateway l’Exposition of 1889, a World’s Fair that coincides with 100 years of the French Revolution. Construction of the tower began in 1887, was inaugurated March 31, 1889 and opened to the public on May 6. His name was taken from a designer, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
The tower has a height of 300 meters with about 7300 tons of structural steel. The wind can cause the tower was shaking as much as 6-7 cm and heat can cause the top of the tower up to 18 cm away from the sun. There are television antenna height above 24 m. Eiffel Tower holds the record for the tallest building for 40 years.
Three hundred workers, in cooperation arrange 18.038 pieces of steel, using two and a half million nail clamp that was previously designed by Maurice Koechlin. Risk of accidents during construction period is very large. Workmanship is very dangerous because the building structure itself can be overcome by Gustave Eiffel by an act of prevention / tight security and only eat one orang.Ketika victims of this tower began to work, many people are surprised and criticized, that this building is too brave, to try and not artsy. Plus criticism addressed to Gustave Eiffel, known as a bridge engineer, he does not understand the aerodynamics of wind would hit the tower. Read the rest of this entry »