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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.
The current lightkeeper's dwelling house is a survivor of the first light tower. An improved lighthouse, which also survives, was raised in 1866 three years before the installation of the Copper Harbor Front Range Light and the Copper Harbor Rear Range Light. The steel light tower in current use went into service in 1933.
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.
When completed, Diamond Tower will be the only building to twist a full 360 degrees along its height. F&F Tower , in Panama City, holds the record for the tightest twist, that is, the highest average rotation per floor, at 5.943 degrees across each of its 53 floors; and as of 2017, it is the completed building with the highest total rotation ...
Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis made history on Sunday when his independent film “Flow” won the Golden Globe for best animated feature. The dialogue-free film with a modest $3.7 million was ...
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 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 ...