PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 and was invented by a man named Gustave Eiffel. He sadly passed away on the 27th of December 1923 due to a stroke. The Eiffel Tower took 2 years 2 months and 5 days to make. There were 300 workers on the construction site at the time of making the monument and it was the biggest exhibit of Paris in the worlds fair of 1889. The tower was made of 7,000 tons of puddling Iron (which is a mixture of pig iron and wrought iron). One worker sadly passed away in the making of the Tower due to things falling from the first floor. Gustave Eiffel denied the initial design of the Eiffel Tower when Maurice Meochlin first had a design of his own, Gustave said he needed to add more detail.
The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet tall. There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel Tower. The first floor is 190 feet above the ground, the second floor is 376 feet above the ground, and the third floor is almost 900 feet above the ground. The Tower is 328 feet wide. The tower is made of pudding Iron. They light up the Tower on special occasions and do special light shows (Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Easter etc).
There are lots of things inside of the Eiffel Tower and they separate around onto all of the different floors. There are 3 floors in total with glass floors, restaurants, key figures, paintings, stores, salons, bars, telescopes, historic slideshows, treasure hunts, pictures, and souvenir stores. Together there are 1665 steps from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the bottom. There is also Gustave Eiffel’s office that he built for himself before he passed away. The Eiffel Tower has up to 20,000 lights to make it glow up every night. 19,178 people visit the Tower in a day. The things that people do most in the Tower are go to Museums, Resturants, and also get engaged.
-The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world until 1930 when it was passed by the Chrysler Building.
-The Tower gets repainted every 7 years.
-A man named Pierre Labric cycled down the first floor of the Towers stairs in 1923 and survived.
-During cold weather the tower shrinks by about 6 inches and in the summer it can grow 17cm (this is because the steel grows in hot and shrinks in cold weather).
—More than 250 million people have visited the Tower since it opened.
-The Tower was only supposed to stand for 20 years.
The Eiffel Tower is located in the middle of paris at Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole, 75007 Paris, France. It takes 8 hours and 15 minutes to fly to Paris from Toronto Canada.
