The magnificent Eiffel Tower and the imposing edifice that formed one of the most important landmarks of the French city of Paris, which must be stopped if you visit Paris so much so that everyone who visited the city of flowers has one or more pictures in front of this great edifice, Champ de Mars, close to the Seine, and this tower was a symbol of France's technological and industrial power. What do you know about this tower and its construction?
Here, dear reader, some details of the Eiffel Tower built?
This tower was built by architect Gustav Eiffel when France launched a bid to build an edifice to be a landmark for the state. The tower was built in 1885. A race was announced in Paris where the contestants offered suggestions for building an exhibition celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution. And was chosen by the engineer Gustav Eiffel to build an iron tower took the building of that tower for two, two and five days, was opened on May 15, 1889 Description of the tower is the height of the Eiffel Tower 324 meters The tower has three layers there 704 degrees to the floor The second was the rise to the third floor of the tower since the opening of the tower in 1889 until 1982 is going through two stages: the first is to enter from the entrance to the second floor by climbing up one of the available elevators or stairs, and from the second to third floors by two separate elevators were these elevators using engines working on hydropower h W was built reservoir above the third floor with a capacity of 23 cubic meters. The water was pumped into the tank to operate the hydraulic elevators from the second floor to the next and to provide energy, the two elevators between the second and third floors were synchronized, so that the descent of the first of them works in turn lift the second elevator. And it has been switched in these two elevators 1983 electric elevators are able to climb from the entrance to the third floor directly visit the Eiffel Tower allows to visit the tower from half past nine in the morning till 11th and forty-five minutes at night. And the extension of these dates in the summer months to the start of the ninth morning until twelve forty-five minutes at night