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READING 3º. BASICO June 4th, 2020 MISS IVON ARAUJO THE EIFFEL TOWER The Eiffel Tower (or as it is called in French: “La tour Eiffel”) is a tall iron tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Around the time of its construction in 1889, many Parisians... More

READING 3º. BASICO June 4th, 2020 MISS IVON ARAUJO THE EIFFEL TOWER The Eiffel Tower (or as it is called in French: “La tour Eiffel”) is a tall iron tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Around the time of its construction in 1889, many Parisians criticized the Eiffel Tower as unsightly with its steel girders and odd shape. Many artists wrote letters of complaint to Paris newspapers demanding it be torn down. Other critics complained about the appearance of the tower on the Paris landscape but reassured themselves that it was scheduled to be demolished twenty years after its construction. The planned demolition never happened, of course, and one of the reasons is because the Eiffel Tower fulfilled several purposes beyond its role as a tourist attraction. Although Gustave Eiffel did not intentionally design the Eiffel Tower to function as an antenna, its material components, shape, and height made it almost ideal for broadcasting. The height of the tower allowed it to send radio Less