Eiffel Tower - Some Interesting Facts

The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous visited monument all over the world. To a lot of people it is not only a symbol France but also Europe. Although it's among the best renowned international monuments, there are a lot of facts of the Eiffel Tower still unknown to many.

•    The Eiffel Tower heights 324 m, including 24 m antenna. It equals to an 81-level conventional building.
•    The Eiffel Tower was begun to construct on Jan 26, 1887 and finished on Mar 31, 1889.
•    The Tower was the highest building of the world until 1930.
•    The total weight of metal structure used for the Eiffel Tower is 7,300 tonnes, while in fact, including non-metal parts, the weight of the whole construction, is about 10,100 tonnes.
•    There were 50 designers and engineers making over 5,000 drawings, and more than 100 workers building over 18,000 different parts of Eiffel tower in workshop.
•    On Mar 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated.
•    Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets and 18,038 iron parts.
•    Constructing the Eiffel Tower costs over 7,799,400.00 francs in 1889.
•    125 m2 is the square  that each pillar of the Eiffel Tower cover.
•    The height of the 1st floor of Eiffel Tower is 57 m, the 2nd is 115 m and 3rd floor is 276 m.
•    Tourists can come to different floors by using lift.
•    Eiffel Tower can sway slightly by strong winds. In 1999, during a storm, it moved about 15 cm from its last position.
•    On the second floor of Eiffel Tower, Le Figaro established a printing press in 1889. Up till now, the paper has been published on site, moreover, tourist buying it can inscribe their name on their copy.
•    Eiffel Tower gets 3 kinds of brown cover, the bottom is the darkest one.
•    It’s scheduled  that the 19th Eiffel Tower painting is started in fall, 2008
•    It required about 60 tons of paint and approximately 15 to 18 months to paint the Tower.
•    From the top of Eiffel Tower, people can see more than 42 miles away, on a clear day
•    The Tower is open everyday in year.
•    To clean Eiffel Tower,  it requires about 4 dusters & cleaning cloths tons, 10,000 cleaning items doses , 400 liters of detergents and 25,000 bin bags.
•    Since its inception, there are more than 200 million visitors visiting the Eiffel Tower until 2003.
•     20 years after its construction, the Tower was nearly destroyed and sold as scrap, luckily, it never occurred.
•    The 1st French radio experiments were hosted in Eiffel Tower and also had a significant part in the French television inception.
•    There are dozens of antennas, of all kinds in Eiffel Tower , also a 324-meter-high television mast.

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