Eiffel Tower

What do you know about the Eiffel Tower?

When it was built, it was, to say the least, the most controversial
structure of all time. Hundreds protested it, criticized it,
campaigned against it, said it was a disgrace to architecture, and
predicted it would be the ruination of Paris

The Eiffel Tower is unquestionably modern in its shape, which

is distinct from the Neo-Gothic, Neo-Renaissance and Neo-
Baroque styles that were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries,
according to Gudek Snajdar. But its material truly made it stand
out

When it was built, it was, to say the least, the most

controversial structure of all time. Hundreds protested it, criticized
it, campaigned against it, said it was a disgrace to architecture, and
predicted it would be the ruination of Paris
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 Eiffel Tower facts

• Gustave Eiffel used latticed wrought iron to construct the tower to

demonstrate that the metal could be as strong as stone while being lighter.
• Eiffel also created the internal frame for the Statue of
Liberty.Construction of the Eiffel Tower cost 7,799,401.31 French gold
francs in 1889, or about $1.5 million.
• The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet (324 meters) tall, including the antenna at
the top. Without the antenna, it is 984 feet (300 m).
• It was the world's tallest structure until the Chrysler Building was built in
New York in 1930.
• The tower was built to sway slightly in the wind, but the sun affects the
tower more. As the sun-facing side of the tower heats up, the top moves as
much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) away from the sun.
• The sun also causes the tower to grow about 6 inches.
• The Eiffel Tower weighs 10,000 tons.
• There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel Tower.
• The French have a nickname for the tower: La Dame de Fer, "the Iron
Lady.“
• The first platform is 190 feet above the ground; the second platform is
376 feet, and the third platform is almost 900 feet up.
• The Eiffel Tower has 108 stories, with 1,710 steps. However, visitors can
only climb stairs to the first platform. There are two elevators.
• One elevator travels a total distance of 64,001 miles (103,000 kilometers)
a year.
• Despite being planned as a temporary structure that would be dismantled
within 2 decades of its inception, the critics signed petitions to stop the
structure from being built, calling it “A tragic Street Lamp”, “A High and
skinny Pyramid of ladders shaped like a factory chimney” and “ A
Monstrous tower that would cast a shadow over their sophisticated city”.