enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: viewing tower

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Observation tower - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_tower

    Observation tower in Auersberg, Saxony, Germany Haukkavuori's observation tower in Kotka, Kymenlaakso, Finland. An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision to conduct long distance observations. Observation towers are usually at least 20 metres (66 ft) tall and are ...

  3. List of tallest observation towers in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest...

    Stratosphere Tower: 350.2 m (1149 ft) 1996 Concrete Las Vegas, Nevada: Tallest observation tower in the United States. 2 Tower of the Americas: 228.6 m (750 ft) 1968 Concrete San Antonio, Texas: Built as the theme structure for San Antonio's World's Fair, HemisFair '68. It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until ...

  4. Observation deck - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_deck

    An observation deck, observation platform, or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure, such as a skyscraper or observation tower. Observation decks are sometimes enclosed from weather, and a few may include coin-operated telescopes for viewing distant features.

  5. List of tallest structures in the United States by height

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures...

    WWRR Renda Tower Kingsland, Georgia: Guyed Mast 496 m QueenB Television Tower La Crosse, Wisconsin: Guyed Mast 496 m KDEB Tower: Fordland, Missouri: Guyed Mast 495 m WGME TV Tower: Raymond, Maine: Guyed Mast 495.9 m WPSD-TV Tower: Kevil, Kentucky: Guyed Mast 495.6 m NVG-Amarillo Tower Amarillo, Texas: Guyed Mast 493.5 m Sinclair Television ...

  6. Brighton i360 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_i360

    The tower is designed as a 162 m (531 ft) tall needle structure with an ascending and descending circular viewing platform with capacity for 200 people. The tower's initial design had included a wind turbine at the top and rainwater harvesting facilities, to help mitigate the attraction's environmental impact. In October 2015 the developers ...

  7. Space Needle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Needle

    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States.Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark.Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors.

  8. List of tallest towers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_towers

    The Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Japan has been the tallest tower since 2012.. This list includes extant structures that fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and which is self-supporting or free-standing, meaning no guy-wires for support."

  9. Tower viewer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_viewer

    One of Tower Optical's coin-operated binoculars in Utah Coin-operated binocular at Cape of Good Hope. A tower viewer [citation needed] is a telescope or pair of binoculars permanently mounted on a stalk.

  1. Ad

    related to: viewing tower