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A light tower In front of City Hall, Detroit, Michigan, about 1900. Detroit, Michigan, had a particularly extensive system of light towers, inaugurated in 1882. [6] 122 towers, 175 feet (53 m) tall and 1,000–1,200 feet (300–370 m) apart in downtown Detroit, were shorter, less powerful, and twice as far apart as typically found elsewhere. [7]
The moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, are the only known surviving moonlight towers in the world. They are 165 feet (50 m) tall and have a 15-foot (4.6 m) foundation. A single tower casts light from six carbon arc lamps, illuminating a 1,500-foot-radius (460 m) circle brightly enough to read a watch. [2]
In 1999 the lighthouse at Herd Groyne on the opposite bank of the Tyne had a high-intensity sector light installed for navigation into Tynemouth and along the river, whereupon the High and Low Lights were decommissioned and the buildings sold for housing. [10] The towers, however, continue to serve as daymarks for vessels entering the Tyne and ...
That same year, TTI and the Texas Highway Department installed twenty 100 ft (30 m) high-mast lighting towers at two adjacent interchanges on Loop 410 on the northeast side of San Antonio as part of a study to evaluate the benefits and techniques of various types of highway lighting. Each high-mast tower had ten 1,000 watt floodlights.
A light tower is a piece of mobile equipment which has one or more high-intensity electric lamps and a mast. Almost always, the lights are attached to the mast, which is attached to a trailer, with a generator set to power the lamps.
Light tower may refer to: a lighthouse; Light tower (equipment) Stack light, signal lights that show the state of machines; Moonlight tower, big lighting structures popular in the late 19th century; High-mast lighting; Seoul Lite, also known as Light Tower; Huaisheng Mosque, also known as the Lighthouse Mosque
The Tribute in Light is an art installation created in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. [1] It consists of 88 vertical searchlights arranged in two columns of light to represent the Twin Towers. It stands six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage [2] in New York City.
Maglite 2 D cell flashlight. Maglite (also spelled Mag-Lite, stylized as MAG-LITE) is a brand of flashlight manufactured in the United States by Mag Instrument, Inc. located in Ontario, California, and founded by Anthony Maglica. It was introduced in 1979. [1] [2] Constructed principally of anodized 6061 aluminum, they have a variable-focus ...