Infomation 0f Eiffel Tower Height

The World Fair began, however, the elevators of the tower had not been ready yet. From the 15th to the 21st May, 29, there have been 922 people climbing all 1,792 steps to the top.

1898: The first suicide hapened, there was a man hanging himself from a beams. According to the Police Préfecture or the media, in 90 years, there are 369 suicide efforts, of which 2 people survived after dropping from the 57m ground floor, and the wind blew one of them onto a rafter, the other landed on the roof of a automobile. Later on, the second person, a young lady after recovering, she got married with he owner of the automobile.
The Société de la Tour Eiffel has showed that there are just 349 successful self-annihilations from the Eiffel tower.

1903: Gustave Ferrié (1868-1932) started to build the wireless communicating power. In 1905, a radio connection was set up, usable in any atmospheric condition from the tower to the Eastern military forts closed to the German boundary line. In 1906, from the peak of the tower, he sent absolutely audible radio messages to oceangoing ships. In 1907-08, on the Moroccan Campaign, a radio connection was set up with Casablanca city and the cruiser Kleber. Then, by 1908, Ferrié was successful in rasing the transmitter range of the tower from just 400 km to 6,000 km. Thanks to his work, French armed forces radio communication were the best all over the world when the World War 1 happened.
1909: The first airplane flight above Paris and the Eiffel Tower.
1910: First frequent transmitting of time signs 5,200 km at nighttime, half of this length on the day
1959: A new platform was installed for the parabolical transmitters of the 3 television channel and an FM radio set transmitter. At this time the tower reached the height of 320.75 ms.
1960: An English tradesman planned to sell the Eiffel tower at 20 centimes every kilogram, to many scrap merchandisers. A fascinated Dutch firm paid a substantial deposit to this man. When the fake was brought out, the Englishman was condemned to prison house however the Dutch company has never regained its money.

1980: Roped mountaineers scaled the tower, broadcast live on Eurovision program.
Between 1980 and 1983: Broadcast of restoration and modernization. The electric network was altered. The 160 meter spiral stairway (or 996 steps) and the elevator from the second to the third floors were pulled down, 4 new elevators were set up with the maximum capability of 1,700 (previously 600 people). A new reception structure was constructed on the ground floor and the 3 first pavilions reconstructed. A broad restaurant, named "Le Jules Verne", was constructed on the 2nd storey. The flooring in the first floor was brightened and at this time the Eiffel Tower lost 1,343 tonnes and reduced its weight from 10,100 tonnes to only 8,757 tonnes.

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