page_title: List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower / List / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, the North West side, also known as the Trocadéro side.
context_page_description: On the Eiffel Tower, 72 names of French scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are engraved in recognition of their contributions. Gustave Eiffel chose this "invocation of science" because of his concern over the protests against the tower. The engravings are found on the sides of the tower under the first balcony, in letters about 60 cm tall, and originally painted in gold. The engraving was painted over at the beginning of the 20th century and restored in 1986–87 by Société Nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, the company that the city of Paris contracts to operate the Tower. The repainting of 2010–11 restored the letters to their original gold colour. There are also names of the engineers who helped build the Tower and design its architecture on a plaque on the top of the Tower, where a laboratory was built as well.
context_section_description: The list is split in four parts (for each side of the tower). The sides have been named after the parts of Paris that each side faces:
  The North-East side (also known as La Bourdonnais side)
  The South-East side (also known as the Military School side)
  The South-West side (also known as the Grenelle side)
  The North West side (also known as the Trocadéro side)
caption: Seguin, Lalande, Tresca, Poncelet, Bresse, Lagrange, Belanger, Cuvier, Laplace, Dulong, Chasles, Lavoisier, Ampère, Chevreul, Flachat, Navier, Legendre, Chaptal
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