The structure was built from 1887 to 1889, when the entrance arch, Universal Exposition, the World Exhibition in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the French Revolution. Eiffel originally planned to build a tower in Barcelona, at the World Exposition in 1888, but those responsible for the Barcelona City Council thought it was strange and costly design that does not fit into the design of the city. Following the rejection of the consistory in Barcelona, has its Eiffel draft for those who are responsible for the World Exhibition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was on 31 March, 1889, and on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined 18,038 pieces of iron Puddle (a very pure form of structural iron), with two and a half million rivets in the construction of Maurice Koechlin. The risk of accidents was high, in contrast to the modern skyscrapers of the tower is an open framework, without any intermediate procedure floors, with the exception of the two platforms. However, since the Eiffel has precautions, including the use of movable fixtures, railings, and the screen, only one person died.
The tower has been much criticism from the public when it was built, with many calling it look. Newspapers were filled at the time of angry letters from the art community in Paris. One of them was widely quoted in William Watson in the U.S. Printing Office for publication of the World’s Fair of 1892: Civil engineering, construction and architecture. “And for twenty years, we will see that the whole city, but interesting with the genius of so many centuries, we see that spreads like a black shadow horrible disgusting columns from riveted iron plates.” [10], the signatories of the letter contains Messonier, Guno, Garnier, GEROME, Bougeureau, and Dumas.
The writer Guy de Maupassant - argued that hatred of the tower - supposedly ate lunch in the restaurant of the tower every day. When asked why, he replied that he was the only place in Paris, where one could not see the structure. Today Tower is widely regarded as a striking piece of structural art.
One of the biggest Hollywood cliche of the film is that the view from the window in Paris, always the tower. Indeed, because of zoning restrictions on height of most buildings in Paris on 7 Stories, only some of the tallest buildings have a clear picture of the tower.
Eiffel Tower was the permission to stand for 20 years, meaning that they were abolished in 1909, when their property will be returned to the city of Paris. The city planned to destroy (part of the original tender for the development of standards for the tower, which can easily be destroyed), but as the tower proved to be useful for communications, was allowed to stay after the expiry of the permit. The military is used to dispatch taxis from Paris to the front during the First Battle of the Marne, and thus was a statue of victory in this battle.