On this day, Gustave Eiffel celebrated the completion of his most renowned creation by leading a group of government officials and journalists to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The climb took over an hour as the lifts were not yet operative, but at 2:35 pm, Eiffel hoisted a large French flag to the accompaniment of a 25-gun salute. When the tower opened to the general public on 15th May, it was an instant success with 30,000 visitors climbing to the top before the lifts finally came into service on 26th May. The tower was the centrepiece of the 1889 World’s Fair and by the end of the exhibition on 31st October, there had been 1,896,987 visitors. At the top of the tower there was a post office where visitors could send letters and postcards as a memento of their visit.
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