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Including the 24 m (79 ft) antenna, the structure is 324 m (1,063 ft) high (since 2000), which is equivalent to about 81 levels in a conventional building. The Eiffel tower was designed by a chemical engineer named Alexandre Gustave Eiffel....
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At 990 feet tall, the Eiffel tower almost doubled the height of the tallest man-made structures to date; the Washington Monument at 554 feet high, and the Great Pyramid of Cheops at 482 feet. The wrought iron tower ushered in a new age of tall buildings constructed of iron and steel.
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The Eiffel Tower is 986 feet tall and when the antenna is included its height reaches 1052 feet. This is about 81 stories. In 1909 the tower was almost torn down but because its antenna is used for radio broadcasts. To reach the first floor...
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The Eiffel Tower (French: , ) is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable stru...
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Although the Eiffel Tower was built over a century ago, only about two dozen structures in the world are taller than it today. Most of them are in the Far East, which is currently enjoying a fad for building tall skyscrapers similar to that of the U.S. in decades past.
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Standing 300 metres tall, the Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest building in 1899, when built for the following year's Exposition Universelle. Today it attracts five million visitors every year. In other words, be prepared to queue.
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According to The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: "Eiffel Tower a wrought-iron structure erected in Paris for the World Exhibition of 1889, designed and built by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923). With a height of 300 metres (984 ft), it was the tallest man-made structure for many years.";
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Eiffel Tower Layout Eiffel Tower named after its designer Gustave Eiffel. on its completion in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was at 300m, the tallest building in the world. ... "Eiffel Tower faced massive opposition from Paris artistic and literary elite when it was built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World Fair),
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all galleries >> Trip to the Amalfi Coast, Italy (seven days) and Paris, France (overnight): May 16 - May 24, 2003 >> Paris > The Eiffel Tower from our hotel room. The Tower is 1,000 feet tall, covers 2.5 acres and was never meant to be permanent.
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