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the eiffel tower from trocadero, the best place to take pictures of the eiffel tower.
taken w/ the minolta slr
After lunch we walked to the Eiffel Tower. After debating about going up either in sunnier weather or closer to sunset, we decided to come back in a couples day to actually go up.
A hand held picture of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Apparently the lighting on the tower is "patented" and its illegal to photograph the tower during that period.
The ray of light on top revolved and i had to wait to get the ray of light to point in the right direction.
Material used for the Eiffel Tower is wrought iron (puddle iron) of the highest quality. A total of 18038 pieces (9441 tons of wrought iron) were joined together (2,500,000 rivets) to create the Tower. Total weight of Eiffel Tower is 10,000 tons, with 7,300 tons being metal.
Eiffel Tower was meant to be dismantled and the metal sold as scrap 20 years after it was constructed, but this never happened. In 1909, the tower was nearly demolished and sold off as scrap. It was saved for its use use as a telecommunications structure. A con artist sold the tower twice to unknowing buyers for scrap in 1925.
Note the date on the tower. It was taken in 1999: 186 days until the Millenium. Remember the Millenium? :-)
La Torre Eiffel (Tour Eiffel, en francés), inicialmente nombrada torre de 330 metros (tour de 330 mètres), es una estructura de hierro pudelado diseñada por el ingeniero francés Gustave Eiffel y sus colaboradores para la Exposición universal de 1889 en París.
Situada en el extremo del Campo de Marte a la orilla del río Sena, este monumento parisino, símbolo de Francia y su capital, fue el noveno lugar más visitado del país en 2006 y el monumento más visitado del mundo con 6.893.000 de visitantes en 2007.2 Con una altura de 300 metros, prolongada más tarde con una antena a 325 metros, la Torre Eiffel fue la estructura más elevada del mundo durante más de 40 años, hasta que la superó el edificio Chrysler, de Nueva York, en 1930.