``The Eiffel tower is a puddle iron lattice tower. It is one of the most beautiful and biggest towers in the world. The nick name of it's is ``La dame de fer'' . It is situated in the champ de mars in paris . It has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in the world. Every year a large number of tourists come here to visit it. The tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 world’s Fair Named after its designer, engineer Gustsv Eiffile.The tower stands 324 meters (1,063 ft) tall, and height as an 81-storey building .It is the second tallest structure in France , after the mill au viaduct as a broadcast antennas.The tower has divided into three levels for visitors.
They can collect Tickets from stairs or lift, to the first and second levels. The walk from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. Not only first levels but also 2nd levels are restaurants. The tower has already become the most significant symbol of both Paris and France. At first the structure was built in 1887 as the entrance arch for the exposition universally, a world's Fair.Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron, using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice koechlin.Eiffel was assisted in the design by engineers Emilee Nouguier , Maurice Koechlin and architect Stephen Sauvestre .
Eiffel took safety precautions, including the use of movable staging’s, guard-rails and screens. The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May. At the time of it's building it was must criticized by the public .Gustave Eiffel engraved on the tower seventy-two names of French scientists, engineers and other notable people. It is a very wonderful invention of science.
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