Eiffel Tower Tours | Visite de la Tour Eiffel
 

• Important Facts about the Eiffel Tower
• Eiffel Tower Location
  • Eiffel Tower Maps
  • Directions to the Tower
• Tower Background
  • Controversy
  • Eiffel's Response
  • Tower Acceptance
  • Number of Visitors
• Built for the Exposition Universelle
  • Design Competition
  • Tower Conception
  • Architectural Beautification
  • Construction Period
• Eiffel Tower Construction
  • Building the Tower
  • Prefabricated Construction
  • Accident Prevention
  • Construction Completion
  • Tower Opening
• Tower Life Extended
  • Original Permit for 20 Years
  • Radio Transmissions Influenced Permit Extension
• Tower Lighting
  • Lighting from Construction to 1985
  • The Rotating Beacon
  • Lighting from 1986 to Present
• The Elevators
  • From the Ground Level to the 2nd Level
  • From the 2nd Level to the 3rd Level
• Tower Levels
  • First Level
  • Second Level
  • Third Level
• Tower Facilities
  • Tower Maintenance
  • Tower Operation
• Names of 72 Scientists
• Tower Happenings
• The Tower and the Movies
• Copyrighting the Tower Image
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Biography
  • Birth
  • High School and Collage
  • Marriage
  • Engineer-Constructor
  • Viaducts and Statue of Liberty
  • Portable Bridge Kit
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Railroad and Highway Bridges
  • Panama Canal
  • Scientific Experimentation
  • Radio Experimentation
  • Eiffel and Aviation
    • Wind Tunnel Testing
    • Fighter Plane Design
    • Leading European Authority on Aerodynamics
  • Death
• Tower Information
  • Operating Dates and Time
  • Admission Prices
  • Guided Tours

The following is a summary of the interesting facts about the Eiffel tower:

• 300 iron workers, for the two years 1887-89;
• 2.5 million rivets;
• 15,000 pieces of iron;
• 40 tons of paint;
• High wind sway of at most 12 cm;
• Temperature dependant height variation of 15 cm or less;
• 1652 steps from the 2nd level to the top level;
• Total height in 1889: 300.51 meters [985 feet, 11 inches];
• Total height with television mast: 320.755 meters [1052 feet, 4 inches];
• Base area: 10,281.96 Sq. meters [2.54 acres];
• Foundation weight: 277,602 kg [306 tons];
• Iron structure weight: 7.34 million kg [8092.2 tons];
• Elevator systems weight: 946,000 kg [1042.8 tons];
• Total tower weight: 8.56 million kg [9441 tons];
• Pressure on foundation: 4.1 to 4.5 kg/square cm;
• There are 1,665 steps to the summit and not, as popularly
  believed, 1,792 steps representing the year of the First French Republic.