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The Eiffel Tower (/ ˈ aɪ f əl / ⓘ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ⓘ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel , whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.
The final design called for 18,000 pieces of puddle iron and an incredible 2.5 million rivets. Admittedly, that sounds a lot more difficult than the 3D Eiffel Tower puzzle we had as kids.. 4. The ...
The Exposition Universelle of 1889 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889.
France’s Eiffel Tower, for example, has attracted close to 300 million visitors since it opened in 1889. ... It's received an average of 77.8 million international visitors each year since 2010 ...
January 13, 2017 - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announces a 300 million euro ($318 million) renovation of the tower that will take 15 years to complete and will include increasing security and ...
March 31 – Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel. [1] At 300 m, its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. April 10 – A star is placed on the Mole Antonelliana in Turin , Italy , designed by Alessandro Antonelli , bringing the building's total height to 167.5 m (550 ft), making it the tallest brick ...
103~118 [1] c. 280 BC: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Destroyed by earthquakes in 1303 and 1323. Sint-Walburgiskerk: Zutphen: Netherlands: 384: 117: 16th century: Current height: 76 m. Until 1600, the church was 117 m tall and the highest structure in the Netherlands before the 20th century. Potala Palace: Lhasa: China: 384: 117 ...
Today marks the 125th birthday of Paris's Eiffel Tower.Erected for the 1889 World's Fair, Gustave Eiffel's controversial 324-meter structure (the tallest manmade object in the world at the time ...