On May 15th, 2009, the Eiffel Tower celebrated its 120th birthday. Here are some “oddball” facts and curiosities about one of the most famous man-made structures in the world.
Do you know…
The tower was forged from 18,038 pieces of iron. (The largest number of streams: 2.5 million.) Eiffel-tower is completely replaced every seven years. (The total weight of the painting, 15 tons.) The tower has almost 7 million visitors a year, over 200 million since it was first built in 1889. “). Tower elevators travel upwards of 100,000 kilometers per year, approximately 6213 miles.
The tower was built as part of the center of the Paris Universelle in 1889. The design of the tower was shared in competition with other entries, one of which was a giant guillotine! (Claims Oldenburg would have been proud.)
When the tower was built in its rudiments, some of the French luminaries, artists, writers and intellectuals of the time observed, consigned and consigned letters to the tower, with the structure as “unseen”. Obsessed with a pillar of metal.” (Jones 2009)
In or around the year 1912 (the exact time is unknown), one Franz Reichelt, wearing his homemade version of a parachute, hoping to demonstrate the first form of a hanging parachute, jumped from the tower and flew straight back down. from to the ground He did not try again. (It’s amazing to see evidence of this jump. See Morbidly Curiouser.) The tower is a favorite jumping-off point for many dangerous doctors jumping off the base.
tower and Movies
The tower has given inspiration to movies and films almost since its inception. French filmmakers, the Lumière brothers, made the tower into one of their first films, Panorama Pendant l’Ascension de la Tour Eiffel/Panorama Dum Scandere The Eiffel< i>Tower (1897). The famous French director Rene Clair made a documentary film, La Tour, 1928, which explored the construction of the tower in detail. Burgess Meredith used the tower as an integral element in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), and who can forget the scene featuring Grace Jones as May Day in James Bond movie, A View to Kill (1985), in which, having escaped his bond, he jumped a tower to become a fugitive with little experience, hidden parachute
And finally…
Erika La Tour Eiffel (yes, that’s her name), ex-US. An army officer, married to the tower (yes, she was married to the tower.) Ms. La Tour Eiffel seems to have the so-called “sexual object” situation, in which each individual transfers the normal romantic and romantic. sense into an inanimate object, usually some large public structure. (Different shots for different folks.)
Long live La Tour Eiffel!
Sources:
Shyman, Carol. The Eiffel Tower in Movies. (http://www.filmfestivals.com/reportage/toureiffel/ toureiffel .htm)
La Tour Eiffel. 2008. (http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/practice/faq/index.html)
Independent. I brought the Eiffeltower. May 25, 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/living/i-married-the-eiffel-tower-832519.html)
Jones, Jill. 2009. ‘Hateful Column’ of Metal. In Vico Muri, May 9, leisure & Arts.
