Why the Eiffel Tower has a Secret Apartment on Top
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When Gustave Eiffel’s company built Paris’ most recognizable monument for the 1889 World’s Fair, many regarded the massive iron structure with skepticism. Today, the Eiffel Tower, which continues to serve an important role in television and radio broadcasts, is considered an architectural wonder and attracts more visitors than any other paid tourist attraction worldwide. More than 7 million people visit this iconic tower every year. Since the tower's 1889 opening, 250 million people worldwide have enjoyed all the Eiffel Tower offers. And it has a lot to offer. The tower's three platforms are home to two restaurants, several buffets, a banquet hall, a champagne bar, and many unique gift shops. Educational tours of the tower are available for children and tourist groups. But one spot has fascinated many-the “secret” apartment.
Why is there an apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower?
Is there a secret apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower?
Who lives in the secret apartment in the Eiffel Tower?
Is there a secret on Eiffel Tower?
Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
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Actual coverage of the apartment begins at 9:01.
@tylerschoenhofen9458
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@danielwardin4688
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Winston!
@evankesel642
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@pamelamacon9675
Жыл бұрын
Thank youuuuuuu
@mpthorvonericksen
Жыл бұрын
You never heard of foreplay? Here's the Tour E'ifell... And here's the studio
You spent exactly 2 minutes of a 16 minute video talking about the topic.
@thecianinator
Жыл бұрын
Timecode for when he gets to the point?
@JohnC19902
Жыл бұрын
8:54 to 11:04
@justwannagrill8548
Жыл бұрын
He rly do be padding it out tho
@kenc.4134
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnC19902 thanks fren :)
@Waderader
Жыл бұрын
He used to make better videos. Now he's just milking it.
During WWII my father in law was a radio operator on top of the Eiffel tower for the United States. Unknown to who was making the noise behind him he told the intruders to shut up so he could hear the coded message and keep the device tuned in. Afterwards he was very surprised to find General Eisenhower and several other General's standing quietly.
@taleandclawrock2606
Жыл бұрын
Great bit of history, thanks for sharing.
@guytech7310
Жыл бұрын
Was he in the apartment as a radio Operator? Hopefully he took some photos of of it. I imagine today its probably used for the TV transmitter & other equipment.
@maisiesummerfield265
Жыл бұрын
brilliant story
@markskeldon1347
Жыл бұрын
@@guytech7310 There are no pictures, the whole operation at the Eiffel tower was top secret with Marine Corps gaurds. Part of the story as he always told it was nobody was supposed to be up there but the operator on duty. That unit received trans-atlantic messages. His discharge paperwork said he was unassigned, typical of secret work. After he told the General's to shut up and he was done with his work on that message, General Eisenhower told him "Your doing a good job Sergeant." The only reason he drew that assignment is that on the transport ship bound accross the North Atlantic the convoy encountered a severe storm and he had his back broken. He was part of the "greatest generation."
@guytech7310
Жыл бұрын
@@markskeldon1347 Thanks for sharing the story. I was hoping the operation wasn't classified. I believe all of the classified WW2 docs won't be released until 2045, but I'll likely be 6 feet under by then.
The fact that there was a clip of the Vegas copy of the Eiffel Tower at the end… 😂😂
As a machinist/welder/fabricator, I appreciate the depth of footage concerning construction. Well done video that covers much more than the title suggests.
My spouse is a piano tuner/technician. I can only imagine how much fun it would have been to go up there to tune & service that grand piano! Wow!
"Several buffettes" ?
@somethingsomething404
Жыл бұрын
Right! On a video about Paris no doubt
@somethingsomething404
Жыл бұрын
I’m surprised he didn’t pronouns Dijon and d’John
@stacyrussell460
Жыл бұрын
I think he does some of these odd pronunciations on purpose
@craigeflater6608
Жыл бұрын
Buffettes… buffoons!
@karen-leelamb1097
Жыл бұрын
I love his channel, but the mispronounced words in all his videos is astounding, if not irritating.
Despite opposition, I am so glad it was built and what an achievement. I went up it while on a school trip in the sumnmer of 1965 so thanks to Mr Eiffel and all those involved.
My first trip to Paris, as we drove into the city from the airport, the first thing I saw was the Eiffel Tower. What a feeling! 😁
Beautiful symbol of the union between science, art, and culture, and of the French tradition of combining innovation with elegance.
I got the sense of the structure's amazing size seeing it behind all the buildings it dwarfed. May the Eiffel Tower continue to stand and be looked after for centuries!
I went to the top of the tower and the apartment was identified as part of the tour so it was never that 'secret'. Just go and get up the top if you are ever in Paris.
Five BILLION lights? I'm definitely going to need a source on that one. I couldn't imagine maintaining five billion of anything physical. Not to mention the electricity.
@goosenotmaverick1156
Жыл бұрын
568181818 amps That's what 5 billion 25 watt lightbulbs would pull from the 220v system that most countries use. Even if they used LEDs that consumed a mere single watt... 22727273 amps Your average home in the US has a minimum 200 amp service, larger ones 400. I'll let you do the math on that if you want lol
@StaticImage
Жыл бұрын
@@goosenotmaverick1156 And if we were to assume that each LED diode that makes up this 5,000,000,000 lights is just 1mm in size, the lights would span a distance of 5,000km. I'm not sure that could really fit too well on this tower.
@davidcoppinger
Жыл бұрын
It has 20,000 lights. The narrator is off by several degrees of magnitude. I’m surprised he didn’t catch that when reading it. Common sense.
@RandomPlaceHolderName
Жыл бұрын
5B/330m is 15M lights per meter of elevation. Laughable.
@Iggyhaxor
7 ай бұрын
Electricity used to come from the atmosphere before the reset so this would have been self illuminated
I assume he will get to the apartment eventually.
I would love to visit Paris. My Great Grandparents were members of the French Opera Company as well as College Professors. Their son my Grandfather was given permission to follow his passion to become a French Chef. He started out working clean up in the kitchen of a very busy Parisian French Restaurant. Soon after showing so much interest in how the kitchen works and how the beautiful food and PASTERY Trays were made a Chef took my Grandfather under his wings and made him his sou chef! The beginning of a wonderful Chef. Then came the time when due to their places in the French Opera Company they new a Great War was going to happen and they got themselves and their son out of Europe and to America 🇺🇸. I would love to be able to find information on my ancestors. That’s my dream. One of them anyway.
@The_Plane_District
Жыл бұрын
is there any chance you can do ancesory research? with the tech e have nowadays this dream can be done in reality...
This tower brings joy to all who see it. I hope to someday see it myself. Thank you Gustaf.
A slight correction : if I recall correctly there was an early 2022 upgrade to the digital broadcast antennas at the top. It increased the height by roughly 6 meters, putting the overall length of the tower at 330 meters. Also, the tower structure has been "trimmed" of any excessive / overly redundant trusses putting the metallic structure at 7 300 metric tons (10 100 tons with the foundations).
As I am from England, I have been able to visit Paris on several occasions, unfortunately, I have never been lucky enough to get to the third platform because of high winds, I will of course try again the next time I visit, Paris is my most favourite city in the whole world and I have been lucky enough to visit quite a few capitols. ❤❤❤❤
@adaptercrash
Жыл бұрын
We did it and your face moves around all by itself
I saw and traveled up the Eiffel Tower a few decades ago. I've always remembered that experience. And I really love the addition of the powerful rotating search light at the top. I also loved the time Citroen was displayed running down the entire length of the tower during the 1920s-1930s I think. I could very well be wrong on that date though as I'm often wrong with such things.
@Flufficat
Жыл бұрын
I'm 40 plus years ago I visited the Eiffel tower and had lunch at the restaurant there but it wasn't as classy as the very expensive brasseries there now. I recall there is a lift up and we walked down from the level above, which I did not enjoy.
As a visitor to Lisbon, they are very proud of one bridge, claimed to be constructed of a pupil from Gustav Eifels school of construction.
@gil7555
Жыл бұрын
Finn Carl Bomholt Sorensen : Gustave Eiffel non Gustav Eifels Français non Suédois. Ni, Roy de Suède
@pedroedsos
Жыл бұрын
I think you are mistaken, I have found nothing that remotely relates Eiffel with Lisbon bridge. Maybe you meant Santa Justa Lift. As stated in the video, Eiffel was in charge of Porto's first railway bridge, D. Maria Pia. He was also related to Porto's Luis I bridge because his former colleague was in charge of that one. You might be interested in Porto's bridges, all have something unique in them and at least 4 of them were world record by the time of their construction.
@Lilbroda
4 ай бұрын
25 de Abril bridge has nothing to do with Gustave Eiffel
@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188
4 ай бұрын
@@Lilbroda I can't say which one, but we became told that one was?
In 1984, that tower became the most awe inspiring (examined closely - what is possible from the imagination, hearts and minds of some humans), and unforgettable experience of my life . . . thus far!
Some people are unfairly critical. The Eiffel Tower is an Icon. Overall good informative video.
@mancamiatipoola
Жыл бұрын
This is what i call a "classy clickbait". We wait 10 minutes to see the apartment and then he shows us ONE picture of one of the rooms and then some random old pictures of a kitchen, a bathroom and a piano room that are CLEARLY not from the tower, but just random pics from the internet. He even has the BALLS to show a picture of a dining plate and call it a dining room. DUDE!
Thank you for the information, Ryan. Did not know about the apartment or the fact that it was meant to be torn down after a few years. He was very smart to come up with other uses for it beyond the World's Fair.
You showed footage from the tiny replica in Las Vegas without saying so. Credibility lost.
@xodiaq
7 ай бұрын
Not knowing how to pronounce “buffet” lost more cred.
I remember as a kid reading about the secret Eiffel tower apartment in the Magic Treehouse book and apparently its actually real
Eiffel tower is a kind of lighthouse. this is the incredible idea of a great engineer to build this tower .This is the best video about this tower. good job,
I enjoyed this a lot, but why show the Paris casino in Las Vegas near the end there? I know it might be hard to acquire footage of a specific thing like "buses next to the Eiffel Tower" due to how structures are situated and street geography, but man did that take me out of this. Still a great video though, I swear!
@ucbearcats1978
Жыл бұрын
Ha, ha, yes! I stayed at Paris Las Vegas earlier this year.
@mancamiatipoola
Жыл бұрын
This is what i call a "classy clickbait". We wait 10 minutes to see the apartment and then he shows us ONE picture of one of the rooms and then some random old pictures of a kitchen, a bathroom and a piano room that are CLEARLY not from the tower, but just random pics from the internet. He even has the BALLS to show a picture of a dining plate and call it a dining room. DUDE!
The apartment is NOT a "secret." Everybody knows it's there, they advertise that it's there.
Enjoyed your video about the Eiffel Tower, but were we supposed to notice that one of the busses mentioned was actually going down Las Vegas Blvd. in Las Vegas, Nevada by the replica of the Eiffel Tower? I've been to the replica and hopefully will have an opportunity to see the real Eiffel Tower. Thanks for sharing the story about the Eiffel Tower and the apartment at the top.
Imagine doing a video about Eiffel tower and pronouncing the T at the end of Buffet.
Noted that a few photos of the Las Vegas copy of the Eiffel Tower make their way into this well done video.
How cozy it would be staying in that little apartment SO high in the sky during a rain storm. :) MAN so cool.
We have an urban legend here at Hunedoara, Romania that some of the iron ore mined at the nearby mines of Ghelari, was smelted in to pig iron at Govăjdia not far from Hunedoara, and turned in some of the iron or steel parts that this tower was built from.
15:14 That is Vegas!
Was up on the summit in 2019. Have to get tickets early for that level. Stunning to be on.
Been there on top of that tower during my visit on Paris 2018 and it was best experience in Paris when i think of it after. Those decks are taller than i thought. Cost about 100euros and i spend hours just watching Paris from there.
Can't imagine Paris without the tower,
@653j521
Жыл бұрын
It is ever thus. People fight to prevent the new then fight to preserve it.
I like the way that he used every excuse to save the tower from demolition. Thank goodness it worked otherwise we would have lost it . I found it quiet unusual that the penthouse apartment didn’t have a bedroom. How wonderful it would be to live in that apartment. A bedroom and a guest room would definitely be installed if it was mine. 😊
@tvoommen4688
Жыл бұрын
Without a bedroom, he had a valid excuse that it is just a scientific center, not a recreational facility.
@grecco_buckliano
Жыл бұрын
It would have been destroyed for no other reason than aesthetics. Obviously an engineering marvel designed to stand for centuries. It would have been a terrible shame to tear down such greatness. Some people build. Others tear things down. I like the people that build better.
My great Uncle came ashore June 7th @ Omaha beach, he was a radio expert for the U.S. Army and he ended up living up at the top of the Eiffel tower for over a year keeping the armed forces radio equipment in good order, i believe he lived in that space during that time...he had a nice Luger that he collected on the way to Paris which he showed me, pistol, holster and nazi belt buckle.
Mr Eiffel was brilliant in many ways , his best was preserving the tower❤
The Eiffel Tower was built as a proof of concept, that instead of building heavy stone buildings, its possible to build a very light, open building and make it tall without having it collapse. Specifically, it meant that a "light" building can be sturdier and taller, because it needs to carry less weight before collapsing of its own weight. Every tall building after that was built based on the same principles, especially the "skyscrapers". We have come a long way in technique though. If the metal used in construction were recycled and reused, it would be possible to build three and half similar towers, as tall as the original, but all even stronger.
@TimpBizkit
7 ай бұрын
I'd like to see this even lighter Eiffel Tower. It must be a fractal of trusses made of trusses made of trusses!
As a parisian, it's a kind of our city's lighthouse. Been up there countless times. Seen it almost everyday. And there are many epic stories around her. Interestingly, in the video you can see the former Palais du Trocadero, just in front of the tower on the other side of the Seine. Which has been demolished and replaced.
@CycolacFan
Жыл бұрын
You might be better placed to remake this video using some footage of your own. Perhaps you could even access the apartment and supply what this video lacks.
@Ozymandias1
Жыл бұрын
@Girard I’m glad I went on it in 1982 and 1999. When things were more normal.
@natalliaf6387
Жыл бұрын
take a shower, FFS
@Eurotool
Жыл бұрын
First Parisian I hear about who actually went up the tower! Most Parisians I know (I am the son of one) never put a foot in the Eiffel tower.
@s.p.8803
Жыл бұрын
@Girard You don't know what you are talking about: from the beginning it was used to make all sorts of scientific researches and experiments, and then for reception and communication, up to this day!!
One other thing is the Eiffel tower is really great for shooting fireworks because or thanks to its structure, they can be placed at different angles etc and allow a lot of creativity, I highly recommend everyone to look for videos of fireworks at the Eiffel tower, usually on Bastille day and/or during NYE, really spectacular display, always very creative, so far I haven't seen another monument or structure that offers such diverse opportunities and yes I am biased, having lived there 14 years but still, every year the Eiffel tower wonders again in what it can do! Very good content, merci/thank you!
Good to know Gustave used the tower for Aero dynamic experiments… so did I.. in 2004 I let fly a paper aeroplane from the top. It flew for over 10 minutes, eventually disappearing underneath a bridge crossing on the Seine.
Many Buses, but you took that one who stops in Las Vegas.
So my buddy asked me to help him move a couch into his apartment. Little did I know...
@paulcochran1721
Жыл бұрын
Pivot! Pivot!
@gloriaallmomd4686
Жыл бұрын
LOL, LOL.
@bigbrianDASHncDOTcom
Жыл бұрын
Just be glad he didn’t ask you to help deliver his five billion lightbulbs.
Thank you for this incredible video. Excellent work.
VERY good doc on the Eiffel Tower! I learned so much!
There is an other tower designed and built before this by the firm Henry-Lepaute where you can see the resemblance in the steelwork with this slightly more famous tower and that is the Valsörarna lighthouse in Finland built in 1885. You have to look that up as no links are allowed here.
Clickbait. Your videos turned into clickbait - video supposedly about the apartment on top, but only a quarter of the video talks about it.
1/10th mm tolerances on the iron structural parts--amazing! I wonder how they even went about measuring large pieces so accurately? 5 billion lights, though? I'd like more information on that.
@robertgregory2618
Жыл бұрын
Yea, I find that really hard to believe.
@chrisvig123
Жыл бұрын
It’s around 20 thousand lights…not sure how he got that unrealistic figure lol 😆
@leenevin8451
Жыл бұрын
5 billion photons
@damnjustassignmeone
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, 20k lights…
@adnamamedia
Жыл бұрын
i Googled it and found a thread where someone did the calculation: "To install 5 billion lightbulbs would take more than 4700 man-years (30 seconds per bulb non-stop) so there would be no feasible way to get them all changed as they burned out. 5 billion is an insanely large number."
It's a fantastic structure for 1886.. unbelievable Ryan. You do a fantastic job with these videos.your dignified demeanor separates you from the wannabes. Excellent video.thanks again bill feilhauer
Thank you for sharing this video. Back in the1980s my father was working jointly for the French, British and American governments on classified projects. During that time they spent a bit of time on the Eiffel tower. At the time there was work being done on the tower and sections were closed to the public. He and a colleague got permission to remove a small piece of metal from a piece that had already been removed to keep as a momento of the time they were working there. When he was packing up his suitcase he discovered that the piece of metal from the Eiffel tower made his suitcase over the weight limit. So he let his friend he had stayed with have it and he kept the thin melted drips created by the blowtorch when they had cut the metal. Which he would later attach to a cobble stone he had picked up somewhere during his time in France and the UK. It has been on his mantle ever since.
Buff-ets?
@brandonha
Жыл бұрын
Gotta do something to get people commenting.
@greatwhiteswag
Жыл бұрын
I often notice multiple similar mispronunciations in each video which aren't even considered regional differences. He's an intelligent guy but maybe reading so many scripts possibly get ahead of some individuals.
Thanks for the video. Anyway you can make one about it in modern day? I appreciated the older one. I will never get to see it in person.
Would like to see a walk through of that apartment today.
I’ve been up to the top 3 times over the years. I also had lunch in the restaurant on level 1. I’ve seen the apartment at the top also. If you are in Paris, you will want to book your tickets early in your trip.
@richmck007
Жыл бұрын
Yes, but did you drink champagne and propose as well..? Since 1982, I have done all that! To think the local council of Barcelona refused it when offered the Iron Lady ( something this narrator failed to mention…).
How on earth did they ever get a piano up there? Certainly not by the spiral staircase!
Wow 🤩 Grateful for such a monumental visionary; Gustave Eiffel.
There can never can be too much information. Thank you!
I never ever knew that there was an apartment!!! That’s pretty cool 😎
A magnificent structure, truly an eye full...
I have been inside the multi floor apartment and it did indeed have a bedroom. If only people really knew what this device truly does/did they would tear it down in an act of revenge.
Thank you for sharing. Its funny to see that clip in Las Vegas with the bus. Not sure of the reasoning behind this clip. The Eiffel Tower is amazing to see though and especially the history. Thank you for sharing.
Very disappointing video. I spent 16 minutes waiting to see at least the outside of this secret apartment and possibly the inside. No mention is made of whether the apartment even exists today, even if just showing the location of this (maybe) long gone apartment would be something at least. A quite misleading video title.
@genzalarboa3110
Жыл бұрын
it's not an apartment, it's gustave eiffel's office and it still exists, you can see it (but not visit it) from the 3rd floor of the tower
@itsonlycapnkirk
Жыл бұрын
@@genzalarboa3110 Thank you for the information. Maybe the title of the video then should be ''Secret Office'' not apartment. And of course if it can still be seen why not include the sight of the office in the video?
@Bobtowngarden
7 ай бұрын
The inside looks like and smells like a dead skunk on a hot road in Cridersville Ohio on Thursday July 16th at 430 in the afternoon while eating a bagel on the back of a horse.
And from 1925 for 9 years the world's largest illuminated sign with letters 30 metres high - CITROEN - with 600 kms of electric cable and 250,000 light bulbs.... used by Charles Lindbergh when coming into land after his solo flight across the Atlantic... Citroen another French design icon... Traction, 2CV, DS, CX, GS, SM.
I was lucky enough to travel to Paris at 16! Our tour leader told us how when it was being built the Bourgeois HATED the landmark and loathed eating at the restaurant but did so "because it is only place to eat where u don't have to look at it!" Regardless- its Amazing
Love the addition of period correct big band swing music.
@ 15:14++ That's LAS VEGAS....
@paulcochran1721
Жыл бұрын
That bus has a long drive to the real Eiffel Tower! The "Mob Museum" on the bus caught my eye...
I love the idea they had in the movie Tomorrowland. Have the tower be a platform for a rocket ship was great . They also showed the apartment you talk about in this video .
It's beautiful and iconic, the logo of Paris, the pride of France! From Ms Diana LaFleur USA
Fun that you added bus tours in front of the Las Vegas Eiffel Tower 😂 It was an interesting video anyway
I have one of these mova globes, it stopt rotating 🙁 It really looked nice when it worked But now it's not that nice anymore
This story is just fantastic Brilliant, I have been fascinated with this structure & many others around the world, so one comes to mind that you should cover which I don't think you have; The Flat Iron Building In Manhattan New York. This is another Building that is so fascinating I have visited Manhattan but sadly I was not aloud to visit inside, it still has the water tanks in the basement that operated the lifts. With what I have read recently there is a great story here perhaps you could consider looking at this. Very best wishes on a great channel.
What a iconic design he really was ahead of his time. Could you imagine having the apartment at the top? You could probably feel it swaying. This man was a genius to surround it's mystic around science to keep it alive.
I had a cup of coffee on the second level in 1967. One special item on my bucket list.
For more than 25 years after the world expo, Parisians wanted to tear it down but didn't because they'd have to pay a tax to cover the demolition/disassembly cost.
The Eiffel Tower was designed to attract ectoplasmic entities and molecularly bond them to the structure. The Ghostbusters traveled to Paris in October of 1987 to cleanse the tower after a maintenance crew in the upper floors damaged the control box keeping the spirits bonded to the tower. Loss of containment meant that millions of spirits collected over the course of a century threatened to explosively release into the city. The Ghostbusters prevented this by connecting their proton packs to the control box and transmitted the psychokinetic energy to a satellite in orbit, sending the energy across the planet where it was received by their containment unit in New York. The whole process took five hours, which caused the Cable companies to sue the Ghostbusters after their costumers were forced to listen to millions of cursing French ghosts until the procedure was complete.
@mannyfresh2deff
Жыл бұрын
Hey what u smokin,,cause I want some ... 😂
@taleandclawrock2606
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@sknmwms6516
Жыл бұрын
Quit 🚬 smoking that meth!
@thekraemer1757
5 ай бұрын
The "experiments" in the apartment were conducted by Evo Shandor before moving to NY.
What is missing from this otherwise very interesting presentation is the fact that Eiffel had a small room right on top of the tower that was his personal study. I had a chance to see it when I was there. The reason why he built the "secret" apartment and this little room was to prove the French people and the world how much he trusted the soundness of the construction. As mentioned in the video, he also contributed to the building of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was a present offered to America by the French Freemasons to celebrate the 110 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Eiffel was a Freemason.
The Tower is an amazing sight to behold. I visited it in 2009 during my tour of Paris and some European cities. I only managed to stop at the middle floor, I was too scared to proceed to the last floor. I will certainly make efforts and muster the courage to make it to the last floor, when next i have the opportunity to visit Paris.
Hey Ryan Socash, hope everything goes well and really liked the episode. Let me ask you this, would you like consider doing a documentary series covering the first industrial revolution similar to how Real Time History's documentaries like Glory and Defeat & Napoleon's Downfall? I'm curious to know what you think.
3:14 Franz Reichelt failed parachute attempt 1912
My late wife and I went to Paris on a day trip on Eurostar from the original London terminal at Waterloo, and visited the Eiffel Tower. We made it to the top eventually, after not realising of the queues for tickets. 3 long for the lifts all the way to the top, and one shorter, to use the stairs to level 2. Yes we hoofed it to level 2 then lift to the top. A certain experience I will never forget. It is OK if one is fit and healthy, and no way if one is not. Also, on a perfect day, I am informed, one possibly can see the Pyrenees towards the south of France.
@andrewj9831
Жыл бұрын
Agree...did the same thing used the stairs. Because of that, I have a "better" story then most. Most people don't have pictures between ground level and level 2. The stairs is a "hidden gem" as you get to see the layout of things.
Love the opening sequence of 007s A View To A Kill on the Eiffel Tower. Still as Iconic as the tower itself!
The Eiffel tower is a radio tower also.
Just imagine the poor SOB's that had to lug the furniture up there!!!!
Absolutely superb documentary. Interesting and educational. Thank You
I spent spring 1989 in Paris 🇫🇷 and Michael Chang won his only Grand Slam 🎾 tournament at Roland Garros, there was 100s of American tourists there and the sun shine bright 🔆
The real mystery is what were those constructions that looked like small houses above the base of the tower?They can be seen in the video.Why aren't there anymore?
I've never been there... but I now have respect for it!💌 Thanks
Great video. A small fact of the tower, is every member is in compression. Cast iron has vary little tensile strength. I can not recall if I learned that in my structural engineering class or Architectural history. It was probably the latter, 4 decades ago my memory starts to go foggy. On the destructions of these types of structures (many from world exhibitions) I wish we had more records of the Crystal Palace of 1851. Knowing it was not a World fair, I think the world lost a monument and an ingenuous structural idea from Frank L Wright of the Imperial Hotel/Tokyo. I did my thesis in structural concrete on that structure.
2:20 wow that actually works remarkably well on a small enough screen!
That was fascinating.
You are very close...there are 20,000 lights on the Eiffel Tower!
@StaticImage
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20,000... 5,000,000,000. Bah. It's pure conjecture, I say.
In regards to Mr Eiffel building his apartment above the larger public observation deck because he saw himself as better, it could be a misunderstanding of the fact that we do want to celebrate the best among us as nations and humans. and his tower is a testament to a better past where you could have hope that science was going to literally build a Utopia. Sadly, science was taken over by corporations a long time ago just like everything else. I'm thankful that I got to go to London Paris and Rome as part of my senior trip in 1994. The tower was cool. I also really liked those art deco signs they have for their subway.
Interesting story !! Great!! Thanks man!! ♥️👍👌✌️☯️👁️☮️✴️🇱🇷🗯️❗
I was hoping to see your pictures of the “secret” apartment. We’re you able to see it?
@jamesmiller4184
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See it here Donna: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJZ3o8qco8isaM4.html
@donnamealy4877
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@@jamesmiller4184 thank you! I hope you enjoyed your visit. Sounds like it from your videos. I appreciate you making these as I will never get there-- afraid of heights! 😄
Let's redefine the term secret as something that people all know about, yeah that's a great idea.
Guaranteed job security, as the light bulb changer guy ! Hahaaa
hi bud .. what was the song and the end of this video ? tried searching the depths of the net but to no joy :( .... awesome video ! much appreciated and informative ! - cheers