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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.
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 moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night. Only the collection of towers in Austin, Texas, have been termed historically "moonlight towers," a term that dates to the mid-20th century. The light from the towers was compared to moonlight, after they were installed in 1895.
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The electric light tower was proposed by J. J. Owen, publisher of the San Jose Mercury, the precursor of The Mercury News, as a way of lighting the entire center of San Jose on the "high light" principle, at less expense than gas street lighting. Owen was inspired by the electric lighting in San Francisco, the first in the world, which he had ...
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 Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest, and quickest, meteor showers of the year. Here’s what you need to know to observe it during peak activity.
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.