Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Tourist Trips to the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and one of the world famous structure.

Who is not familiar with the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The tower is said to be transformed into a "forest" green giant composed than 600,000 plants.

This controversial plan to make the Eiffel Tower as a tourist attraction that truly environmentally friendly. These changes are part of the environmental scheme.

However, various parties expressed opposition to this plan. They assess that plan may change the original shape of the Eiffel, which annually attract some seven million tourists from various countries.

The Eiffel Tower has a height of 1063 feet which will be seeded Frenchman ecotourism. Pengolala tower even have started to introduce hundreds of baskets of plants, and irrigation system consisting of 12 tons of rubber tubing to care for plants at the Eiffel Tower.

The metal structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7300 tons while the entire structure including non-metal components weighs 10,000 tons. Depending on the temperature, the spire can be away from the sun 18 cm (7 inches) due to expansion of iron on the part facing the sun. The tower is also swinging 6-7 cm (2-3 inches) in a windy atmosphere. As a demonstration of the economy of the building, when 7300 tons of metal structure were melted, it would fill 125 square meters with a depth of 6 cm (2:36 inches), which means the iron density of 7.8 tonnes per cubic meter. The tower has a mass less than the mass of air in the cylinder with the same dimensions, and 88.3 324 meters radius. 10,100 tons of heavy tower when compared with 10,265 tons of air.

The first and second levels are accessible by stairs and elevator. A ticket booth at the south tower base sells tickets to the stairs which begin at that location. In the first platform the stairs continue up from the east tower and the third level summit is only accessible by elevator. From the first or second platform the stairs open to all people who go up and down depending on if they have bought lift tickets or tickets households. Number 9 steps to the ticket counter at the base, 328 to the first level, 340 to the second level and 18 to the platform elevator at the second level. When out of the elevator on the third level there are 15 steps up to the upper observation platform. The number of steps printed periodically on the side stairs to give an indication of the ascent. Most of the ascent to the scene directly beneath and around the tower although some short stairs closed.

Treatment consists of procurement of tower 50 to 60 tons of paint every seven years to keep it from rusting. To maintain the appearance of the visitors below, three different colors used on the tower, with a dark color on the bottom and the lightest on top. Paint color changed; the tower is painted brown-gray. At the first level there is an interactive console that tells the colors on the next painting. The architect of the Eiffel Tower are Emile Nouguier, Maurice Koechlin and Stephen Sauvestre.


0 komentar:

Post a Comment