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At a distance of 80 km you
can see the rays of four
searchlights on the top of the
tower.
At a distance of 80 km you can see the rays of
four searchlights on the top of the tower.
7 million tourists visit the
tower, 25% of them are the
French themselves.
. In all its existence, the building, which the Parisians
used to call the ‘lightning rod’, the ‘monster’ and the
‘skeleton’, disfiguring the appearance of the city, was
visited by about
300,000,000 people
Four workers fastened each
rivet: one held it, the second
heated (when cooled, the
metal part was compressed,
due to which the fastening
strength was ensured), the
third formed a cap, and the
fourth flattened it.
The total weight of the
tower is 10,100 tons,
with its frame weighing
in at 7,300 tons.
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In order to cover the entire tower,
60 tons of paint is
needed.
She has been repainted 19 times (on average,
once every 7 years). The paint layer eventually
reached 3 mm and weighs about 350 tons. By
the end of 2021, the tower will be painted again,
after having cleaned its 250,000 m2 construction
area of the old anti-corrosion coating, which
contains the banned lead. The tower has changed
colors seven times, until in 1968 it acquired the
present one.
Gustav Eiffel conducted
5,000 scientific
experiments
on the tower from August 1909
to December 1911.
In particular, the tower became a platform
for testing Foucault's pendulum and mercury
manometer, as well as a place of research in
physiology and radio communications.