The Eiffel Tower is a tower made up of iron and built on Champ de Mars, alongside the Siene River. It’s located at Paris. This tower has been France’s global icon and sis amongst world’s most recognizable structures. It’s named after the designer, Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel Tower hold the credit of being France’s tallest building. Around 200000000 people are reported to have visited this tower since the year 1889, i.e. its construction, inclusive of around 6719200 in the year 2006, thereby making it one of world’s most visited monuments, that too, paid ones.
Structural Specifications
Eiffel Tower is inclusive of an antenna (79 ft). The height of the structure is around 1063 ft, which is comparable with around 81 levels with respect to any traditional building. Initially, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest tower in the world. This title could be retained from the year 1889 to the year 1930, when Chrysler Building situated in New York City (1047 ft) got completed. Right now, it’s the 5th tallest structure, that too, in France.
Metallic and non-metallic structure
The metallic structure of Eiffel Tower weighs around 7300 tonnes, whereas the whole structure inclusive of non-metallic components weighs around 10000 tonnes. The tower’s topmost area might shift away with respect to sun by around 7 inches due to metal’s thermal expansion. This reaction would be taking place with side of metal facing sun. The Eiffel Tower has a distinctive feature of swaying its 2 to 3 inches in wind.
The 1st and 2nd levels can be accessed by lifts and stairways. There’s a ticket cubicle at the base of south tower. Tickets are sold for accessing the stairs beginning from that location. Stairs tend to continue from east tower at the 1st platform. The summit of the 3rd level can be accessed through lift only. From the 1st or 2nd platform, stairs can be accessed by anyone for ascending or descending, irrespective of them purchasing a stair or lift ticket. The definite count of the stairs is inclusive of 9 steps towards the cubicle of tickets at base, 328 steps towards the 1st stage, 340 steps towards the 2nd stage, and eighteen steps towards lift platform at the 2nd level. While leaving the lift on the 3rd level, there’re 15 additional steps for ascending to upper platform of observation. Most of ascent permits for the unhindered view regarding this area directly underneath as well as around this tower, even though certain short stretches have been enclosed.
Maintenance
Maintenance of tower is inclusive of application of 50-60 tonnes of the paint every 7 years for protecting it against rust. For maintaining a consistent appearance with respect to the observer on ground, 3 separate colors are being used for painting the tower. The topmost surface is painted light, whereas the bottom surface is painted dark. Color of paint is altered on occasions. At present, Eiffel Tower is painted brownish-grey. He 1st floor consists of interactive consoles which host a poll regarding the color to be used for future painting session. Stephen Sauvestre, Maurice Koechlin, and Emile Nouguier are Eiffel Tower’s co-architects.
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