Beautiful Eiffel Tower

History

The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance to the Exposition Universelle, the World Exposition that celebrated the French Revolution a century. Eiffel originally planned to build the tower in Barcelona, ​​for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall thought strange and expensive, and does not fit the city. After the rejection of Plan of Barcelona, ​​Eiffel send the draft to those responsible for the Universal Exposition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on May 6. Three hundred workers joined together 18,083 Embedded metal parts (pure form of structural iron), use two nails and a half million, in the structural form by Maurice Koechlin. The risk of accident was great, to the modern skyscrapers the tower is open without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took a cautious stance, including the use of the moving pulley block, track and display aids, only one person who died.


Landscape Construction of the Eiffel Tower: the first level
The tower is getting criticism from the public when it was built, calling it disturbing eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with letters from the art community in Paris. One of them included in the U.S. Government Publishing Office of William Watson of the Paris Universal Exposition: Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture 1892. "And during twenty years we have seen, runs through the town, still lived by people centuries genius, we see a black shadowy expanse of black columns, built of iron spikes." [10] The signing of this letter includes Messonier , Gounod, Garnier, Gerome, Bougeureau, and Dumas.
Novelist [{Guy de Maupassant]] - who hate the tower - the Tower lunch at the restaurant every day. When asked why, he replied that it was the only place in Paris where we can not see the Tower. Today, still regarded as a striking piece of structural art.

One of the cliché of Hollywood films showing the view from the window of Paris who always showed tower. In fact, since the building height restriction in Paris to 7 stories, only a few taller buildings have a clear view of the tower.
Eiffel had a permit the tower to stand for 20 years, which means it must be dismantled in 1909, when ownership transferred to the City of Paris. The city had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower that could be easily demolished) but as the tower proved extremely profitable in terms of communication, the tower was left standing after the permit expires. The military uses it to set up a taxi at the forefront of Paris during the First Battle of the Marne, and the battle was a victory monument.