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The metal structure of the Eiffel Tower has a mass of 7300 tons, or 7.3 million kilograms. The design of the tower is very space-efficient: if you melted down the pure iron* that it is made of, it would occupy a volume of only 930m3, equivalent to a sphere with a radius of just six metres.
The Eiffel Tower (/ËaÉªfÉl ËtaÊÉr/ EYE-fÉl TOWR; French: tour Eiffel [tuÊâ¿ÉfÉl] listen) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.ts base is square, 125 metres (410 ft) on a side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930.