Eiffel Tower History

When Adolf Hitler visited Paris before world war II, he wished to climb the Eiffel Tower and take a picture from the top of the Tower. However, at that time, the garagemen destroyed the elevator, which prevented Hitler from climbing the Tower. Therefore, he took a photo in front of the Tower. Later during World War II, when Germany occupied France, Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of the Eiffel Tower. But, no one listened to his words and the Tower's elevator cables were cut by the French fighters, forcing the Nazis to climb the stairs of the Tower to plant their flag.

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The height of the Tower seems intimidating from the ground level, but when you see the Tower from one of its three observatory decks, you will observe a completely different look of the Tower. Eiffel Tower height is 200, 400, and 900 feet for each floor which are connected by stairs and elevators. What’s interesting is that you cannot use any of the Eiffel Tower Lift to get from bottom to the top. Instead, you can only use the elevator to get to the first and the second floor from the ground.

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During the construction of the tower, Gustave Eiffel built a small secret apartment on the third floor of the tower. The apartment is fully furnished, including a wing and some laboratory rooms, which he used to conduct various experiments for his interest. A lot of people were very interested in spending a single night in the Eiffel Tower and they approached Gustave for the same. However, the Eiffel Tower history says that he refused all these offers in order to use his room as a quiet place to spend time for himself and host some of his guests, including Thomas Edison, the man behind the invention of the phonograph.

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The Eiffel Tower height is 984 feet or 300 meters and it remained the World's tallest man-made structure on Earth for around forty years from its construction in 1889 until 1930, when the Empire State Building stood up on a height of around 1,250 feet, or 381 meters.

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The current Eiffel Tower Architecture of the tower was not Gustave’s first design. One of the senior engineers of his company, Maurice Koechlin, was the principal with the guidance of Emile Nouguier, a fellow engineer, and Stephen Sauvestre. Koechlin was the leader of the company's architectural department. The initial sketches that were shown to Eiffel got rejected as his vision for the Tower was an elaborate and detailed structure. Later in 1884, he approved the design, and the construction started in 1887.

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The Eiffel Tower's history suggests that the building allowed the French to showcase their industrial powers while celebrating the centennial of the French Revolution, which was started in 1789 at the 1889 world fair Paris. The authorities expected the monument to stand for only 20 years before it was torn down.

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