The Eiffel Tower

The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance to the Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair that celebrated the French Revolution a century. Eiffel originally planned to build the tower in Baecelona, ​​for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall thought strange and expensive, and does not fit the city. After the refusal of Barcelona, ​​Eiffel submitted his draft to those responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, ie in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined together 18,083 pieces of puddled iron (a pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million of nails, in the structural form by Maurice Koechelin. The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is open without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. But because Eiffel took a cautious stance, including the use of mobile cranes, rails and screens, and in this case only one who died.

PARIS - The Eiffel Tower is not only to save the romantic story in the days adorn the City of Paris. Icon French capital, it is also storing the tragic story.

Security Unit Paris a few days ago to maintain strict Eiffel Tower after a tourist ride to the top of the tower and then jumped to death. 25-year-old victim and allegedly committed suicide.

Upon further exploration, turned out the victim was a tourist from Israel, the Eiffel Tower seen in the area since Sunday night. Police evacuated and shut down the Eiffel Tower after seeing him rise to the 1,603 foot tall tower that at 23.30 local time.

The man ignored the warnings of police and continue to climb up to the top of the tower. He remained there until Monday morning, where the ranks of the police and firefighters helped persuade him down. Finally, the man jump from the top of the Eiffel Tower, fell on the second floor of the tower, and then died instantly.

Management recognizes the Eiffel Tower is not the first time the Eiffel Tower being used as suicide. They said it was memerketat security and add a safety net to prevent this from happening. Similarly, as reported Dailymail, Wednesday (06/27/2012).

According to records, there are now 341 cases of suicide in the Eiffel Tower. The first deaths occurred in 1911, when a tailor, Frantz Reichelt, was killed while trying robe that he believed could make it fly.

The tower received some criticism from the public when it was built, calling it distracting the eye. Daily newspapers are filled with angry letters from the art community in Paris.

Eiffel tower have permission to stand for 20 years, which means it must be dismantled in 1909, when ownership transferred to the City of Paris. City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower that is easy to tear down) but after this tower proved valuable for communication purposes, the tower was left standing after the permit expires. For example, the military uses to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the First Battle of the Marne, and became monomen win the battle.