Eiffel Tower Essay, Research Paper

My report is on the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel was built in 1889, for the celebration of the centennial of The French Revolution. Which was in 1789. The Eiffel Tower was named for the builder, Gustave Alexandre Eiffel.u7

The Eiffel Tower is constructed of 7,000 tons of wrought iron in 18,000 parts held together by 2,500,000 rivets. Without its modern broadcasting antennae it is 300m which is 984 feet. It is the tallest building in Paris, where it dominates the skyline. The Eiffel Tower was designed as a cross-braced latticed girder with minimum wind resistance. The Eiffel Tower is considered a masterpiece of wrought-iron technology. The lower section consists of four arched legs set on masonry piers. The legs are curved inward until they unite as one. There are platforms at three levels that are used as observation decks and on the first platform there is a restaurant. The Eiffel Tower has stairs and elevators. It has a meteorological station, a radio communications station and a television transmission antenna. Near the top of the tower there are a suite of rooms that were used by the builder, Gustave Alexandre Eiffel.

One of the main reasons that Mr. Eiffel built the tower was to measure the speed of wind. This would be known as aerodynamics. He also encouraged the study of the barometer and radio transmission. In 1898 Eugene Ducretet at the Pantheon, received signals from the tower.

Mr. Eiffel?s clockwork precision allowed him to not only build the tower to meet the deadline, but to it with only the loss of one life, a worker who fell from the first platform while showing off for his girlfriend after the bell had sounded ending the working day.