Eiffel Tower

Menara ini tepatnya berada di kota Paris , Perancis. Eiffel Tower mulai di bangun pada tanggal 1 July 1887 dan selesai 22 bulan kemudian tepatny 31 maret 1889. setiap 18,000 bagian yang digunakan untuk membangun Menara Eiffel ini telah di desain sepesial dan telah di perhitungkan, kurang lebih 150 sampai  300 orang yang terlibat dalam pembuatan menara Besar ini. demikian artikel ini di kutip dari Tour-Eiffel.fr

March 15, 1888

September 15, 1888

December 26, 1888

March 12, 1889

Considering the rudimentary means available at that period, this could be considered record speed. The assembly of the Tower was a marvel of precision, as all chroniclers of the period agree. The construction work began in January 1887 and was finished on March 31, 1889. On the narrow platform at the top, Eiffel received his decoration from the Legion of Honour.

Gustave Eiffel Born in Dijon in 1832, he graduated from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1855, the same year that Paris hosted the first world’s Fair. He spent several years in the South West of France, where he supervized work on the great railway bridge in Bordeaux, and afterwards he set up in his own right in 1864 as a “constructor”, that is, as a business specializing in metal structural work. His outstanding career

as a constructor was marked by work on the Porto viaduct over the river Douro in 1876, the Garabit viaduct in 1884, Pest railwaystation in Hungary, the dome of the Nice observatory, and the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty. It culminated in
1889 with the Eiffel Tower.

After the end of his career in business, marred by the failure of the Panama Canal, Eiffel began an active life of scientific experimental research in the fields of meteorology, radiotelegraphy and aerodynamics. He died on December 27 1923.

The names of scientists listed on the borders of the four facades of the Eiffel Tower The names engraved on the Tower, as a tribute gesture from Gustave Eiffel to the world of scientists,

disappeared during one of its paintings at the turn of the century and were re-established in 1986 – 87.