The Eiffel Tower is a hundred twenty years!
On 31 March 1889 was inaugurated the Eiffel Tower, highlight of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. The construction contract was signed on 8 January 1887 urged the Minister of Industry, also commissioner general of the Exposition, Gustave Eiffel and Paris. He stated that the property of that metal would turn the city (rather than the State) after twenty years.
A "vicious column sheet" saved in extremis
Two years of editing ... and critics!
It was so much courage to the Minister to authorize the construction of a tower, there is protest.
His goal was to testify "to the industrial power of the country, document the considerable progress made in the art of metal, to celebrate the unprecedented rise of civil engineering in this century and draw many visitors, but the artists see "a tower vertiginously ridiculous, overlooking Paris, and a gigantic black factory chimney, crushing its barbaric mass Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the dome of the Invalides, the arc de Triomphe ....A letter of protest, signed by famous painters, de Maupassant, Gounod and many writers, is published on 14 February in "Le Temps". And critics will continue throughout the construction of this "odious column of bolted tin" ...
The inauguration of 31 March 1889
The Universal Exposition opened its doors in May 6, but the government wants the closure of the site is marked with a separate opening. On 31 March 1889, scaffolds are gone and the tower itself in all its splendor. The official climbing, with champagne, the 1 710 steps to the summit, where Gustave Eiffel hoisted a giant flag. The Eiffel Tower was born.
It will be successful we know. The Expo draws 32 million visitors, a record, and two million will bold up the tower. Even today, now a historical monument in 1964, it remains the most visited France more than six million tourists a year!
Saved in extremis from the case
In 1910, ownership of the Eiffel Tower was to be transferred from the State, which previously provided the backup, the city of Paris, who had every intention of ensuring the demolition of the building useless.
But at the very beginning of the twentieth century, the wireless telephone. Eiffel offers the Department of War to the tower at its disposal to test connections TSF. From 1905, the tower provides communication from Paris to the strongholds of the East: it is saved.
Rumors and souvenirs around the Tour
Funny anecdotes ...
During the Great Flood of Par
is in 1910, a rumor claiming that the stability of the Eiffel Tower would be threatened by the infiltration and that it would be found even in one day a decrease of two inches! This is totally false (the manufacturers have planned wells in the pillars of the tower), but more than a thousand curious Parisians come up to the summit and shudder in fear of giving the illusion that it looks ...
During the First World War, the transmission apparatus in the tower to capture messages enemies. This is the tower which would have resulted in the arrest of Mata Hari.
... and fun memories
Gustave Eiffel had built an apartment on the third floor of the tower. Since he had a granddaughter there had built a swing, the highest in France surely: when she played the girl to believe it flying in the sky!
Tower Records
It is thanks to the Eiffel tower, which broadcasts from 1910 time signals received up to 5 200 km, as far as time will be unified over the entire Earth and that longitudes are to be established precisely.
It is also from the tower that will be issued the first radio in 1922 and the first television broadcast in 1935.
Every seven years, he should repaint the tower, which requires ... 50 tons of paint!
In 1925, Citroën illuminated tower at night by installing 200 000 ampoules of six different colors. In 1937, for the International Exhibition, it transformed the tower into a giant chandelier provided ten miles of fluorescent tubes of all colors. Finally, after a new lighting set up in 1985, 20 000 twinkling light bulbs are being added for 2000.
Did you finally turn that keeps growing thanks to increasingly high antennas? Of 300.65 meters high at the beginning, it goes with a new platform, at 320.75 meters in 1957 and, during a change of air, to 324 meters in 2000! An old lady growing!
The Universal Exposition opened its doors in May 6, but the government wants the closure of the site is marked with a separate opening. On 31 March 1889, scaffolds are gone and the tower itself in all its splendor. The official climbing, with champagne, the 1 710 steps to the summit, where Gustave Eiffel hoisted a giant flag. The Eiffel Tower was born.
It will be successful we know. The Expo draws 32 million visitors, a record, and two million will bold up the tower. Even today, now a historical monument in 1964, it remains the most visited France more than six million tourists a year!
Saved in extremis from the case
In 1910, ownership of the Eiffel Tower was to be transferred from the State, which previously provided the backup, the city of Paris, who had every intention of ensuring the demolition of the building useless.
But at the very beginning of the twentieth century, the wireless telephone. Eiffel offers the Department of War to the tower at its disposal to test connections TSF. From 1905, the tower provides communication from Paris to the strongholds of the East: it is saved.
Rumors and souvenirs around the Tour
Funny anecdotes ...
During the Great Flood of Par
is in 1910, a rumor claiming that the stability of the Eiffel Tower would be threatened by the infiltration and that it would be found even in one day a decrease of two inches! This is totally false (the manufacturers have planned wells in the pillars of the tower), but more than a thousand curious Parisians come up to the summit and shudder in fear of giving the illusion that it looks ...During the First World War, the transmission apparatus in the tower to capture messages enemies. This is the tower which would have resulted in the arrest of Mata Hari.
... and fun memories
Gustave Eiffel had built an apartment on the third floor of the tower. Since he had a granddaughter there had built a swing, the highest in France surely: when she played the girl to believe it flying in the sky!
Tower Records
It is thanks to the Eiffel tower, which broadcasts from 1910 time signals received up to 5 200 km, as far as time will be unified over the entire Earth and that longitudes are to be established precisely.
It is also from the tower that will be issued the first radio in 1922 and the first television broadcast in 1935.Every seven years, he should repaint the tower, which requires ... 50 tons of paint!
In 1925, Citroën illuminated tower at night by installing 200 000 ampoules of six different colors. In 1937, for the International Exhibition, it transformed the tower into a giant chandelier provided ten miles of fluorescent tubes of all colors. Finally, after a new lighting set up in 1985, 20 000 twinkling light bulbs are being added for 2000.
Did you finally turn that keeps growing thanks to increasingly high antennas? Of 300.65 meters high at the beginning, it goes with a new platform, at 320.75 meters in 1957 and, during a change of air, to 324 meters in 2000! An old lady growing!
Gustav Eiffel (1832 - 1923)
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