RESTLESS EIFFEL TOWER.
Strange behaviour on the part of the Eiffel Tower has been observed by a member of the Academy of Sciences, who communicated his discovery to his colleagues. They were at first alarmed, but he reassured them. The iron tower, which is 300 metres high, has got into the habit of screwing itself up during the day and unscrewing itself during the night. This peculiar performance is due to the heat ol the sun. In summer the tower twists itself in such a manner that bv sundown the lightning-rod at the top leans eastwards. In the winter it points westward. By dawn next day the rod is vertical again. The tip of the lightning-rod leans from the plumb-line a distance of from about an inch and a half to as much as eight inches. But observations have shown that the tower's habit of screwing itself round in different directions does not increase a hair's breadth with age, and there seems, therefore, no danger of the its tying itself up altogether and tumbling down. 2
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 560, 19 April 1913, Page 2
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176RESTLESS EIFFEL TOWER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 560, 19 April 1913, Page 2
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