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The French government planned to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution with a symbol of France’s industrial prowess. The plan was to build the highest tower in the world. Of all the plans submitted, the judges  chose GustaveEiffel. When the plan, along with its proposed site in the residential neighborhood of Champ de Mars was made public, the protest was immediate. Eminent artists, including Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas, signed an angry letter to the minister of public works. “We protest with all our strength the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is without doubt the dishonour of Paris. Everyone feels it, everyone says it, everyone is profoundly saddened by it.” As the tower progress, nervous neighbors feared that it would attract lightning, or topple onto their homes, and sued to stop construction. The city would take no responsibility, so Eiffel himself insured the neighbors, and work resumed. Parisians watched in awe & horror as it went up, calling it an “elephant”, a “giraffe”, a “hulking metal beast crouched on all fours”. After it finally opened, it became a huge hit, even with the protesting artists. All except de Maupassant. He hated it so much that he often ate lunch in the tower’s second floor restaurant, which was the only point in the city where he couldn’t see “this tall skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant and disgraceful skeleton.”

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http://www.france-pittoresque.com/spip.php?article574

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https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Protestation_des_artistes_contre_la_tour_de_M._Eiffel_du_14_f%C3%A9vrier_1887

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http://listverse.com/2010/10/21/10-notable-buildings-people-hated/

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The controversy surrounding Maurice Koechlin and Gustave Eiffel

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The controversy surrounding Maurice Koechlin and Gustave Eiffel

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In 1887 he started to work on a project he called "tour de 300 meters" (300 meter tower) with his brother Henri Koechlin and a civil engineer named Emile Nouguier. Maurice was still working at Eiffel's company at that time.

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Maurice Koechlin was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer born on the 8th of march 1856 and dead on the 14th of January 1946, aged 89. He helped build the Eiffel tower and some even say that he did most of the work and that Eiffel took all the credit. he joined the company  "Compagnie des établissements Eiffel" (company of the Eiffel establishments) in 1879, where he then spent most of his life working as an engineer.

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Principales dimensions de la tour Eiffel

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Principales dimensions de la tour Eiffel

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Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon on the 15th of December 1832 and died in Paris aged 91 (on the 23 of December 1923), he studied in a great engineering school. He is an engineer known throughout the world for his metal constructions (bridges, carpentry, stations, factories, towers...).
It was of the occasion of 1889 that the Eiffel tower was invented. The engineers had the idea of a big tower in June 1884, around 300 meters tall, a structure with a large pylon connected to  4 lattice girders and linked together. They started to set the foundation on the 28th of January 1887.
But they actually built the actual tower itself on the 1st of July 1887. The tower was mounted using wooden scaffolding and small cranes of foam.
It only took 5 months to build the foundation and 21 months to build the metal part of the tower. It took 2 500 000 rivets on the Eiffel tower, they finished the 31 march 1889. In 1964, the Eiffel tower was classified as a historical monument and preserved not to be destroyed.

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According to interviews, in 1967, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau negotiated a secret agreement with Charles de Gaulle for the tower to be dismantled and temporarily relocated to Montreal to serve as a landmark and tourist attraction during Expo 67.

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Artists, painters, sculptors and others signed a petition to remove the tower but it was ignored. There were 300 signatures, one for each meter of the tower (this was before the antennae was installed).

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7, 799, 401.31 francs is the cost of the construction of the tower. The french goverment paid for it.

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"Saut mortel depuis la tour Eiffel" par Franz Reichelt

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the tower is 324 metres tall in total. it is 57 metres tall on the first floor, 115 on the second and 276 on the third. it has 1 665 steps. there are over 300 steps in between each level. the base sides measure 125 meters each. it is made out of puddled iron and weighs 7 300 tons, the weight of 13 fully-loaded airbus A380s!

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Gustave was a French civil engineer and architect. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel tower. Gustave Eiffel (whose full name is Alexandre Gustave Bönickhausen) was born on the 15th of December 1832 and died shortly after his 91st birthday on the 27th of December 1923. He was french and worked as a civil engineer. Gustave was born with Bönickhausen as his official last name but his family adopted Eiffel instead as a reference to the Eifel mountains from their region. Even though everyone knew him and his family as "the Eiffels", Gustave's last name was only officially changed in 1880.

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One of the first drawings of the Eiffel tower

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One of the first drawings of the Eiffel tower

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This is one of the first drawings of the Eiffel tower, created by Maurice Koechlin.

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Old fashioned elevator for the Eiffel tower

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Old fashioned elevator for the Eiffel tower

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5. Inventor Franz Reichelt died by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a parachute of his own design.

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4. The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 15 cm due to temperature changes.

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3. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.

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2. The Eiffel Tower was going to be demolished in 1909, but was saved because it was repurposed as a giant radio antenna.

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1.   The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Paris Exposition and was not intended to be permanent.