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Wouldn't it be great to go back in time and look at Gustave Eiffel's scheduele and see: 1:30 PM- reveal to
the world the tallest building ever. Walk up to the 3rd floor to a 21-gun salute and raise the French flag for the Inaguration
Day.
Well, it's true. On March 1st, 1889 Gustave Eiffel unveiled the Eiffel Tower.
The Eiffel Tower's epic history recounted for its hundredth birthday. To celebrate the Tower's hundredth birthday
in 1989, a huge festival retracing its first century of life was created. The 100 individual panels it contains are drawn
and captioned in the way newspapers were in Gustave Eiffel's time and are exhibited throughout the monument.
One hundred
years of historic and scientific events, famous visitors, anecdotes and incredible stories involving the Eiffel Tower are
now made public in the dates to remember. The panels are provided by the OTIS Company, whose history remains closely tied
to the Eiffel Tower's. The panels are numbered and can be found on the various levels and staircases of the tower. Though
they are displayed in treasure hunt style on the tower itself, they are presented in chronological order here for clarity's
sake.
Click here to visit the events.
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