Monday 22 June 2015

Eiffel Tower

Secrets behind this megastructure

Eiffel Tower is world famous mega  structure . This great idea to build some unique design came into the mind of   world famous  engineer  Gustave Eiffel.


 Amazing Facts

  • There are restaurants in this mega  structure .These are Altitude and Jules Verne and are very smartly designed.
  •  The cost of construction of Eiffel tower was 7,799,401.31 French gold francs at that time .
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  • Eiffel Tower has total 108 number of stories with 347 steps from ground level to first platform
  • ,674 steps from ground to second platform and 1710 steps from ground to platform on the top. 
  • There are 5,000,000,000 lights on Eiffel Tower .At night it gives  stunning  look .
  • The height of Eiffel Tower changes with temperature .Its height get  altered  by about 6 inches with temperature rise.
  • The French name of Eiffel Tower is La Tour Eiffel.This made man icon is also known by   nickname La dame de fer meaning   the iron lady.( Quite different).
  • Talking about  weight  of  this Paris  iconic  structure it is about 10,1000 tons  (including metallic & non-metallic).


In the year 1925 ,this iconic structure was sold by swindler Victor Lustig .















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