With 300 meters (320.75m including l' antenna), and 7000 tons, it was the most building of the world jusqu' in 1930. Other statistics: 2,5 million rivets. 300 workers of l' steel, and 2 years (1887-1889) to build it. Sway d' to more 12 cm in high wind conditions. The height varies from 15 cm according to the temperature. 15.000 iron parts (with l' exclusion of the rivets).

40 tons of painting. 1652 steps leading to the top. It was almost demolished in 1909, but was saved because of its antenna - used for telegraphy with l' time. As from 1910 it belongs to the function Time International. Radio Frenchwoman (since 1918), and of French television (since 1957) also made use of her stature. During its lifespan, Eiffel Tower also attended some strange scenes, of which that d' to be reduced by a mountaineer in 1954, and parachuted with broad of in 1984 by two English. In 1923, a journalist overlapped a bicycle drops some compared to the first level.

Some claimed qu' he had rolled in l' staircase, d' other accounts suggest l' outside of the tower of l' one of the four legs which s' incline towards l' outside. The tower has three platforms. A restaurant (extremely expensive; reservations d' absolute need), the Jules Verne is on the second platform. The higher platform comprises a bar, a souvenir shop, and it (recently restored) office of Gustave Eiffel.