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2. List of revolving restaurants - Wikipedia

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   THE Sky, Hotel New Otani, Tokyo (restaurant open, but not currently rotating) [6] Ginza Sky Lounge in Yūrakuchō, Tokyo (it used to rotate counterclockwise, but now it doesn't rotate. Stopped rotating in 2021 when the Tokyo earthquake damaged the machinery.) Prince Kaikan, Kamata, Tokyo (not currently open) Sogo Kashiwa, Kashiwa, Chiba (closed ...

3. List of twisted buildings - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Railway turntable - Wikipedia

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   A Sector plate or sector table is a traverser that rotates around a pivot that is not at the centre and therefore cannot rotate through 360˚. Nowadays control cars, or coaches with controls at one end, have largely eliminated the need for turntables. Singapore and Hong Kong have a combined traverser-turntable that takes 4-car sets.

5. Mechanical television - Wikipedia

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   Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.

6. Swivel chair - Wikipedia

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   A swivel, swivelling, spinny, or revolving chair is a chair with a single central leg that allows the seat to rotate 360 degrees to the left or right. A concept of a rotating chair with swivel castors was illustrated by the Nuremberg noble Martin Löffelholz von Kolberg in his 1505 technological illuminated manuscript , the so-called Codex ...

7. Revolving restaurant - Wikipedia

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   Architect and designer Norman Bel Geddes proposed a rotating restaurant for the Century of Progress, the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, although it was not built. [3] A barrel-shaped, but stationary, restaurant on Fernsehturm Stuttgart, a TV tower in Stuttgart, Germany, built in 1956, was noted as the inspiration for the idea of a revolving ...