The Eiffel Tower Housed A Scientific Laboratory
Question: Have any scientists ever worked at the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Eiffel Tower was completed on March 31, 1889. At the time it was the world’s tallest man-made structure.
To inaugurate the magnificent metallic structure, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, climbed its 1,710 steps and unfurled a French tricolor flag from its pinnacle.
Eiffel also engraved the names of 72 of the country’s scientists in the tower’s first-level gallery, and atop the structure he installed a laboratory that was used by himself and French scientists to study astronomy, meteorology, aerodynamics and physiology and test experiments such as Foucault’s Pendulum.
See also: Charles VI Of France – The King Who Was Made Of Glass
Eiffel had a strong interest in aerodynamics and performed a series of observations on falling bodies (dedicated equipment was installed from 1903 to 1905). He then imagined “an automatic device sliding the length of a stretched cable between the second level of the Tower and the ground”.
He had a small wind tunnel built at the foot of the tower. From August to December 1909 he carried out thousands of tests, including those on Wright Brothers airplanes and Porsche automobiles.
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