The first digging for the foundations began on January 28, 1887, and all construction was concluded on March 31, 1889. One hundred and thirty two workers assembled the parts on site. Fifty people worked on the design, and more than 100 built the parts. There were 107 bids submitted to construct the Eiffel Tower. It would also determine the 1889 world's fair centerpiece in Paris. Koechlin, Nouguier, Sauvestre, and Eiffel submitted the plans to compete for the spot on the champ de mars plot of land, to serve as the expositions entrance. The main architect was Stephen Sauvestre. These two men were the chief engineers of Eiffel’s engineering firm. These people were Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. Even though Gustave Eiffel is credited for the Eiffel Tower it was actually two lesser known people who came up with the original drawing of it. The Eiffel Tower was built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel for the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The tower was also built to sway slightly in the wind. The top of the tower leans away from the sun as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands, it can move as much as 18 cm (7 inches) and grow 15 cm (6 inches) taller. The paper used to print the visitors' tickets in one year weighs 2 tonnes (4,400 pounds). There are 20,000 sparkling lights and 80 km (50 miles) of cables covering the structure. Three separate colors of paint are used on the structure in order to enhance the impression of height, with the lightest at the top. Since it has been built it has been repainted 18 times, each of these 18 paint jobs there were only 25 painters hired to do the job. The second story platform is 115.5 m (378 feet 11 inches) off 45,000 litres (12,000 US gallons), and the surface to be painted is 250,000 square metres (62 acres). It has a square base that is 125 m (410 feet) long on each side.
The tower is 300 m (980 feet) tall, but this height does not include the 24 m (79 feet) aerial (antenna) on the top the total height of the structure is 324 m (1,063 feet). It took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to build it. The Eiffel Tower cost 7,799,401.31 French gold francs to build in 1889, an amount equal to $1,495,139.89 at that time. The Tower was the Exposition's main attraction. It was built between 18 for the Exposition Universelle (World Fair). You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same - like old Mr Bilbo.The Eiffel Tower ( French: La Tour Eiffel,, IPA pronunciation: "EYE-full" English "eh-FEHL" French) is a landmark in Paris.
We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. “We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?"' Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But Frodo did not heed them he laughed again. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. 'It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot." And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. “Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales.
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