The period in which the tower is built, Which extends from 1887 to 1889 standard for the tools used in that era, and for the size of the tower, it consists of 18,038 pieces of iron, and 2 | It is built by Gustav Eiffel, the tower named after his name, On the occasion of the Paris International Exposition in 1889, and with the passage of time became the Eiffel Tower a symbol of the French capital Paris, and is the first tourist site |
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Markka clock tower is 35 times larger than Big Bin in London The height of the tower reaches 601 meters, and this thing made it the third largest building in the world after the Burj Khalifa and the Shanghai Tower, and the highest clock in the world, the timing can be seen 17 km from this tower, the crescent alone at the top of the tower contributes 23 meters to the height of the tower , Roughly the height of a 7-story building | It can be accessed by an electric elevator |
As for the clock engines, each engine weighs more than 21 thousand tons, which makes the engines of the clock tower from The heaviest and largest engines ever made.
13The clock tower is owned by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | It is capable of carrying 3,000 people at the same time |
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In 1957, a television broadcasting column was installed at the top of the tower | The decorated clock faces are covered with 98 million pieces of colored glass mosaic, the length of the minute hands is 22 meters, the length of the hour hands is 17 meters, and the weight of each hour hand weighs 6 tons, the lighting system in the clock tower depends on LED lighting, up to two million lights are used LED to light up the Makkah clock at night |
The clock was designed in the Islamic style, and contains the highest observation platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 558 meters above ground level.
The view on this floor is of a high quality | The clock tower consists of 120 floors, the clock consists of four faces, the size of the front faces is 43 x 43 meters, and the size of the back faces is 43 x 39 meters |
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The first floor has a two-level restaurant, offering a beautiful view of the picturesque city of Paris | The Eiffel Tower design The Eiffel Tower was built on 26 January 1887 and continues to be built for 26 months, And fifty engineers, and three hundred workers participated in the construction of The Eiffel Tower |
The second floor of the tower The second floor of the tower rises 115 meters from the surface.
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