Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
ROHN Manufacturing was founded in 1948 by Dwight Rohn, who at the time was manager of the Peoria Airport. The first tower he built was for airport use. [ 1 ] ROHN first began producing antenna towers for home television reception, and subsequently expanded its product line to include the manufacturing of telecommunication towers and other ...
This is a list of tallest freestanding structures in the world past and present. To be freestanding a structure must not be supported by guy wires, the sea or other types of auxiliary support. It therefore does not include guyed masts, partially guyed towers and drilling platforms but does include towers, skyscrapers (pinnacle height) and ...
The Tokyo Skytree was, in 2012, the tallest freestanding tower in the world. There are a few borderline designs that are partly free-standing and partly guyed, called additionally guyed towers. Examples: Gerbrandy tower consists of a self-supporting tower with a guyed mast on top. Blaw-Knox towers
Guyed masts on skyscrapers or wider towers are often guyed on the roof of the free-standing basement structure. In such cases, there is no major constructive difference of the guyed mast to a guyed mast on plain ground, and the construction of the free-standing basement tower does not differ much from a tower of the same height without a mast.
Rigid Steel Jacket (truss tower) Oil Rig United States Gulf of Mexico: When built the Bullwinkle platform was the second tallest freestanding structure in the world after the CN Tower. 3 Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) 527.0 1,729 1974 Skyscraper Office, observation, FM/TV-broadcasting United States Chicago
The second-tallest structure in Nevada is the Moapa Entravision Tower at Moapa, a 426.7 m (1,400 ft) tall guyed TV mast at Moapa erected in 2008, the third-tallest is the 401 m (1,316 ft) tall Moapa Kemp Tower at Moapa, the fourth-tallest is Stratosphere Tower near downtown Las Vegas, which was erected in 1994–96 and reaches 1,149 ft (350 m ...
Shanghai Tower skyscraper 5. KRDK-TV mast. The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at 828 m (2,717 ft). Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity transmission towers, and bridge support ...
Joint Venture TV Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida: Guyed Mast 489.2 m American Towers Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida Guyed Mast 488 m NYT Broadcast Holdings Tower Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Guyed Mast 487.8 m Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Boykin Boykin, Georgia: Guyed Mast 487.7 m WVFJ Tower Saint Marks Saint Marks, Georgia: Guyed Mast 486.4 m