Making History and Processes of the Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars on the River Seine in Paris.
The tower has become a global icon of France and one of the world famous structure.
This structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance World Exposition, World's Fair that celebrated the French Revolution a century.
Actually planning to build the Eiffel tower in Baecelona, for the Universal Exhibition in 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall thought strange and expensive, and does not fit with the city. After the rejection of Plan of Barcelona, Eiffel send the draft to the responsible party for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on May 6. Three hundred workers combine with metal parts submerged 18,083 (pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million of nails, in the form of structural by Maurice Koechelin. Risk of accidents is very large, to the modern skyscrapers the tower is unusually open without the middle level unless the two platforms. But because Eiffel took caution, including the use of mobile tackle, auxiliary rails and screens, and in this case only one who died.

The tower received any criticism from the public when it was built, called it disturbing eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with letters of criticism from the art community in Paris.

Eiffel tower standing licensed for 20 years, which means it must be dismantled in 1909, when ownership transferred to the City of Paris. City has plans meruntuhkannya (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower that is easy on the tear down) but after the tower proved extremely lucky in terms of communications, the tower was left standing after the permit expires. For example, the military uses it to arrange a taxi Paris on the front lines during the First Battle of the Marne, and became monomen win that battle.