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Puerta de Europa, the first inclined skyscrapers ever built. [citation needed]An inclined building is a building that was intentionally built at an incline.Buildings are built with an incline primarily for aesthetics, offering a unique feature to a city's skyline, as well as framing other buildings and structures between them when built in pairs.
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Inclined rig, a method of rigging a sail to direct the force of the sails in such a way as to reduce heeling; Inclining test, a test that determines a ship's stability and the coordinates of its center of gravity; Inclined building, a building that was intentionally built at an incline; Inclined tower, a tower that was intentionally built at an ...
Inclined towers are specifically distinguished from "inclined buildings" in that they are not built to be habitable, but to serve other functions.The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved, including: visibility of other features attached to the tower such as clock towers; as part of a larger structure or device to increase the visibility of ...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, an iconic leaning tower. This is a list of leaning towers.A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction, or subsequent external influence such as unstable ground), does not stand perpendicular to the ground.
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English: Drawing of inclined plane power house on Morris Canal, from HAER (Historical American Engineering Record) number NJ-29. This plane (says the drawing) was the Boonton Plane, which would make it Plane 7 East.
Inclined elevator in Cuneo, Italy Inclined elevator of the Eiffel Tower, 1890s Double-lane inclined elevator in Kek Lok Si temple, Malaysia An inclined elevator [ 1 ] or inclined lift [ 2 ] is a form of cable railway that hauls rail cars up a steep gradient.