At the official site for the Eiffel Tower, they have scans of the original blueprints for the Eiffel Tower. Some of them are higher-resolution than others. But they’re all pretty cool!
I remember reading somewhere, once, that the government almost tore down the tower during either World War I or II, to use the metal for tanks or something.
According to Wikipedia, the original drafts for the tower were submitted to Barcelona, which rejected them, claiming that the tower didn’t fit their city’s aesthetics. People in France didn’t initially take to it either. Apparently a notorious tower-hater, novelist Guy de Maupassant ate in the tower’s restaurant every day — claiming that it was the only place in the city where he couldn’t see the tower itself.
(via BB)
Grant Hamilton
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