Monet--Eiffel+Tower

The Eiffel Tower

This 121 year- old tower that weighs 10,000 ton stands in Paris, France. This objet is called the Eiffel Tower; it is the most famous tower in all of France. It took 635 days to build, and was finished in the year 1889. The man who designed it was Gustave Eiffel. As you may have noticed he also named it after himself (France book).

The Eiffel Tower is important for many reasons. One of the reasons is that the tower houses televisions. Telecommunications transmitters. you know how we have set alight to make our televisions work they just built that into the Eiffel tower so they won’t have to spend any more money to build something else. The Eiffel was built on the champ de mars beside the river seine in Paris (Jean-Pierre-navilles, ngcheong-lum, placeinparis.com/eiffeltower).

Gustave designed and built the tower and finished in 1889 as told. As you don’t now that Gustave and other men built this tower to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution. They had to work long and hard to finish this 984 feet tall tower. To even get this project started they had to pay $8,000,000 francs, this was for all that iron they used (ngcheong-lum).

The year 1909 the Eiffel was almost torn down. It was saved because its Antenna was used for telegraphy at the time. In the year 1910 it became part of the international time service. An anonymous caller threatened to bomb the Eiffel. It caused the French people to evacuate 2,000 people from the area (French).

When the Eiffel was finished and everyone heard about this they immediately start visiting it. So they turned it into a tourism site so that anyone could come visit. The Eiffel tower is open 365 days a year for people. It has an elevator installed in it with a speed of 2 meters/second. They also built some restaurants, gift shops, and snack machines. During the first six months of its opening the tower had nearly 2,000,000 visitors (the Eiffel tower behind the scenes, Eiffel tower restaurants, the Eiffel).

Today the Eiffel tower has become a global icon of France. They use this tower to make money, such as for the Satellite people have to use to make their television work. Also they charge people to go up the Eiffel, and for the restaurants and gift shop. So they got to be making butt loads from people.

Some more important things about the Eiffel tower is this lady named Erika La Tour had married the tower. She is known for marring objects; she gave all the other ones up in her late 30s to marry the tower. Also if you spread salt it wouldn’t help the ice on the iron tower, it would only corrode its iron structure. Another thing is sand could damage the mechanism of the tower elevators. Also painting the tower is a big help for keeping it around (France).

They maintain the Eiffel by painting it every seven years because it is made out of cast iron and to make it last forever you have to paint it. The Eiffel tower is located in Paris, France. The End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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