La Tour Eiffel: interesting facts from First Form Research

It was built between 1887-9 for the Great Exhibition
It weighs 7300 tons
It’s made of iron
It was intended to be demolished after the exhibition
It has 1009 steps.
It was built by 300 steel workers and used 2,500,000 rivets and 18038 steel pieces
It was designed by Gustav Eiffel
It’s 986 feet high (300 metres)
It expands and contracts by 10-15 centimetres over the course of the year
It sways by up to 12 centimetres in a wind