I was having fun a couple of nights ago watching "the man on the Eiffel tower(1949)" and reading about the tower on wikipedia, you know as one does. Some fun fa

I was having fun a couple of nights ago watching "the man on the Eiffel tower(1949)" and reading about the tower on wikipedia, you know as one does. Some fun facts. The bars were cut and drilled in a factory to dimension and no on site modification was allowed. if the bar did not fit it was sent back the the factory. Eiffel(with a well respected engineering firm) payed for most of the tower himself. in return he was given 20 years exclusive exploitation rights. and had a private apartment at the top. The tower was not only the first building taller than 200 meters it was the first building taller than 300 meters. There was a project that would have dismantled the tower and re-erected it for a Canadian worlds fair(note that this is possible because everything was made to dimension in a factory). Thankfully it never went through. The worlds fair promised to put it back when done... but I have my doubts. The nazis wanted to tear it down for scrap. but the civil unrest raised delayed this project long enough for the liberation of paris.