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Eiffel Tower
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Eiffel Tower is the [N]om de pop of one Ben Wheelock, a young man with a remarkable understanding of both the pop hook and the importance of synthesizer. Wheelock, the son of a classical composer, began studying music at an early age. This experience helped him to master many different instruments and gave him the tools needed to lock himself in his apartment and record some songs. The resulting album, Eiffel Tower, is an irresistible blend of lo-fi fuzziness, pop catchiness, and New Wave booty shakin' with splashes of Red Red Meat's down-home scruff and Grandaddy synth-heavy indie rock. These are unpretentious little songs that creep into your dancing bones and get you grooving to the synthesized drums, fuzzy keyboard, and earnest vocals. Like the structure that is its namesake, Eiffel Tower is a grand and stunning production.
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Instantly recognized all over the world, the famous Eiffel Tower is the first "skyscraper" of the modern age. Its architect was a structural engineer who built the tower as the centerpiece of the Paris Exposition Universalle in 1889. It was built to have maximum load-bearing capacity and be able to sway in the wind. The tower has many engineering innovations later used in other skyscrapers. Each of the 12,000 wrought iron pieces was independently designed and was prefabricated off-site. All seven million rivet holes had to match exactly when placed on top of one another.
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The Eiffel Tower has three levels. You may walk or take a lift to the first level. This lower lift is curved and has two passenger decks. You may only take the lift to the second and top levels.
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The Eiffel Tower structure is actually a very simple one: Four huge, curved, trussed columns rise from a square base to meet at the top of the tower. These four 410 ft tall columns are connected by girders at two separate levels, to give the tower its familiar A-shape. Three platforms at different heights can be reached either by stairs (1,652 steps!) or by elevators, one of which only goes up to a famous restaurant. The shape of the trusses required that the 4 corner elevators ascend on a curved track. Indeed, the Eiffel tower began a revolution in civil engineering and architectural design. Today, observation decks on three levels offer sweeping views of Paris from all sides.
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Built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889 for the Exposition Universelle, the Eiffel Tower is 300 m/984 ft tall. At the time it was built, it was the world's tallest free-standing structure. There is access to three floors by stairs and elevators, with wheelchair accessibility to the first and second floors only. There are two restaurants: one on the first floor and a more expensive one on the second floor.
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The Eiffel Tower was built in Paris by Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer specialized in revolutionary steel constructions, for the 1889 world exhibition. The tower originally had no practical use. The intent was just to demonstrate the capabilities of modern engineering. A daring engineer's dream, the Eiffel Tower weighs 7000 tons, but the pressure it applies on the ground is only equivalent to that of a chair with a man seated on it! Each one of the about 12,000 iron pieces were designed separately to give them exactly the shape needed. All pieces were prefabricated and fit together using approx.
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