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the Eiffel Tower is an engineering icon
that changed the face of the modern
world here are five things you may not
know about it the Eiffel Tower was used
as a one-of-a-kind antenna during World
War I in March 1918 it intercepted a
coded German radiogram after it was
deciphered the French successfully
avoided German attack turning the tides
of the war the tower has been painted 19
times since its construction to protect
it from corrosion an average of once
every 7 years from one painting to the
next the tower's colors have changed
several times at the time of the World's
Fair it was red but recently the tower
has been repainted the same color as in
1907 it took 60 metric tons of paint to
complete the tower's latest paint job it
was originally built as a monument for
the 1889 World's Fair in Paris at the
time it was the tallest structure in the
world standing at 1,000 ft tall more
than four times taller than the notredam
cathedral more than double the height of
the Great Pyramid of Giza and almost
twice as tall as the Washington
Monument the concept for the Eiffel
Tower didn't come from Gustav Eiffel the
engineer for whom the tower is named two
of his Engineers drew the first few
sketches but Eiffel didn't think the
design was attractive a few weeks later
another architect added decorative arcs
to the original sketch as well as
platforms for public use Eiffel finally
became excited by the
project Eiffel built a one-of-a-kind
elevator in this space located right
below one of the tower's pillars Eiffel
built an elevator based on the same Tech
technology he used to level the tower
hydraulic pressure
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