La
Tour Eiffel (phonenumber +33 I 44 II 2323)
PARIS/France
I889 3I2.27 m
2000 3I8.70m
(2000 including extra 6.43m for Telecommunications Antenna)
PARIS/France
I889 3I2.27 m
2000 3I8.70m (2000 including extra 6.43m for Telecommunications Antenna)
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Inventors like Camille Cavallier had improoved the capacity of steel what made it possible to imagine buildings of never reached importance. In France many things happened in Pont à Mousson next to Nancy/Lorraine |
 Pont Des Arts, Paris Kenna, Michael buy this Art Print build in I803, the Pont des Arts is one of the World's first Iron construction located a 5 min walk from Cybercafe de Paris |
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The
use of iron in Architecture
opend new possibilities and gave access to many creative expression of the I9th century |
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 Les Halles De Paris Architectural buy this Art Print build in I853 Victor Baltard's contruction was the first building in France to openly display its metalwork the beautiful Baltard Pavillions were dismanteled ... |
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in
the same years
I876 Alexander Bell invented the phone I878-I885 the 33 m high Statue of Liberty was assemble on rue de Chazelles Paris I7e I884 studies began for the Eiffel Tower |
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I887
started
the construction of the Eiffel Tower it took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to build it |
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7300 tons of
mettal, |
 march 3I I889 the French flag was hosted on the top the Tower was born ... right for the I00th anniversary of the French Revolution and the universal exhibition ... |
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a view
over
the Exposition Universelle (coming soon) |
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can
you imagine
when the concession of the Tower expired in I909 certain people wanted to tear it down .... but there was the phone and the Eiffel Tower became necessary as a Terminal for the first cross Atlantic telephone service (today we mostly use underwater fibre optical cables like Atlantic Crossing, Gemini, Cantat, TAT I2/I3) |
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until dec 3I I999 I85 804 799 people have gone up the Eiffel Tower over 6 000 000 every year and a few even climb the I665 steps ... bon courage ... |
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Saint Louis de Gonzague on rue Frankin located only a few hundred meters away from the Eiffel Tower and during class we were watching the elevators going up and down  |
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 souvenirs .... a winter view over the Eiffel tower from above Paris 7eme in front you see Ecole Militaire the green field in between Ecole Militaire and the Tower is le Champs de Mars behind the Tower the Seine river avenue de New York the Trocadero with the famous patisserie Carette and the I6e arrondissement, avenue Henri Martin, rue Eugène Delacroix the Bois de Boulogne that is still part of the city of Paris/75 is full of mysteries inside the Bois the house of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor where Lady Di would have lifed if the accident had not happened in the skyline office disctric La Defense/Hauts de Seine 92 many Telecommunication companies are located there |
 a sky view on the Eiffel tower by our little message bird  have a look around the Eiffel Tower just clique on the map and keep and keep cliquing Paris Tourist info Mairie de Paris/75 |
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for the millenum night the lighting of the Eiffel Tower has been redone by light artist Mr Bideau he set up the spectecular sparcling lights |
 the Eiffel Tower at the arrival of the year 2000 all these people coming from all over the World how would they find each others phonenumbers ... ? maybe Brigitte was not the only one ...  gets alife |
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