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In the case of a mast radiator or radiating tower, the whole mast or tower is itself the transmitting antenna.
The level of detail and realism achieved by disguised cell phone towers is remarkably high; for example, such towers disguised as trees are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, even for local wildlife (who additionally benefit from the faux flora[2]).
Such towers also have the added advantage of being able to be placed in national parks and other such protected places without being obtrusive, such as towers disguised as cacti in Coronado National Forest[3].
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At the time of its construction in 1889, the tower replaced the Washington Monument as the tallest structure in the world, a title it retained until 1930, when New York City\'s Chrysler Building (319 m/1063.33 ft tall) was completed (although the tower was still taller if the respective spires of the two structures were excluded).
The tower was met with resistance from the public when it was built, with many calling it an eyesore (Novelist Guy de Maupassant ate at a restaurant at the tower regularly, because it was the one place in Paris he was sure he wouldn\'t see it).
The Eiffel Tower served as a billboard for Citroën from 1925 to 1934.
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 World Trade Center - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The complex towers were designed by Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki with Antonio Brittiochi, and was one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier, as well as the seminal expression of Yamasaki's gothic modernist tendencies.
The towers' sheer size was the subject of a joke during a press conference unveiling the landmarks.
To commemorate the bombing of the tower, a reflecting pool was installed with the names of those who had been killed in the blast.
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 KVLY-TV mast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The KVLY-TV mast (formerly the KTHI-TV mast) is a television transmitting tower in North Dakota, USA, used by Fargo station KVLY channel 11.
The tower is located three miles west of Blanchard, North Dakota (at 47°20′32″N, 97°17′20″W), which is roughly halfway between Fargo and Grand Forks.
The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, and took thirty days to complete, at a cost of US$500,000 ($3.2 million in 2005 dollars).
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 Informat.io on Bank Of America Tower New York City
The Bank of America Tower in New York City is a $1 billion skyscraper project currently undergoing construction, on the west side of Sixth Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Street, opposite Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan.
The tower will have two spires: an architectural one that is 1200 feet (366 m) tall (including antenna), and a 945 foot (288 m) one that will have a wind turbine that will generate electricity for the building.
The tower also features a greywater system, which captures rainwater and reuses it.
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 CN Tower information information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The CN Tower, at 553.33 metres (1,815 ft., 5 inches) is the tallest free-standing tower on land in the world.
In winds of 120 mph the tower sways 1.07 m (3 1/2 ft) from centre at the Antenna, 0.46 m (1 1/2 ft) from centre at the SkyPod, and 22.9 cm (9 inches) from centre at the Main Pod.
The tower is sometimes mistaken by some for the Seattle Space Needle due to their similar appearances; during an appearance by American talk show host Conan O'Brien to Toronto, he staged a mock fight between two men costumed up as the respective towers on his show.
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The Sears Tower Skydeck observation deck on the 103rd floor of the tower is 1,353 feet (412 m) above ground and is a famous tourist attraction.
The Sears Tower is the tallest office building in the United States, and it retains the world record when measuring the height from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the top of the antenna.
The Sears Tower\'s ZIP Code, 60606, was a catalyst of various apocalypse-related rumors surrounding the date June 6, 2006 (also 06/06/06) - a play on 666, the Number of the Beast.
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 DCP: 52 degrees north, 5 degrees east (visit #3)
Although in general known as the "Lopik-tower" to the town of lopik, the official name is Gerbrandy tower, to a former prime minister of the Netherlands.
The tower itself is 100m, carrying a mast of 175m.
An image of the illuminated tower is broadcast by Dutch TV during idle time (see photograph #2).
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The CN Tower in Toronto stands at 553.33 m (1,815 ft) tall, and it is the tallest freestanding structure above ground.
The Sears Tower still leads in the fourth category with 527 m (1,729 ft), previously held by the World Trade Center until the extension of the Chicago tower\'s western broadcast antenna in 2000, over a year prior to the Trade Center\'s destruction in 2001.
The Ostankino Tower and the CN Tower are excluded from these categories because they are not "habitable buildings", which are defined as frame structures made with floors and walls throughout.
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 TV Tower Yerevan Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yerevan TV Tower is a 311.7 metre high lattice tower on Nork Hill in Yerevan, Armenia.
It was built from 1974 to 1977 as a replacement for the old 180-meter high TV tower at Yerevan.
Currently being the highest point in the city, it is one of the highest towers in the world.
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Towers are also built for a few other purposes as well, such as for air traffic control or as a monument.
Note: List not guaranteed to be accurate or up to date, and includes structures traditionally thought of as a tower, although towers with guylines for their main structure or antenna are currently included.
Except of the radio Tower Jauerling, which uses a lattice Tower as basement, the basement is made of reinforced concrete.
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The tower rises to 1,250 feet (381 m) at the 102nd floor, and its full structural height (including broadcast antenna) reaches 1,472 feet (448 m).
The Williams Tower in Houston is a glass-architecture version of the design, and the entrance on the ground floor is very similar.
The Carew Tower in Cincinnati, is also thought to be the basis of the tower, due to its similar design also by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates.
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 terror tower information
- for spreading sound: church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque, bell tower
- for mounting thyristors in a HVDC (thyristor tower)
A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc.
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 More Info on world trade center attack - - world trade centre attack - - word trade center attack
The difference in height between the two towers was because of a Port Authority request to have two floors, the 43rd and the 67th, in 1 World Trade raised, the lower of the taller floors being a cafeteria for PANY workers.
The twin towers were also the first supertall buildings to use sky lobbies, spaces where commuters can switch from an express elevator that goes only to the sky lobbies to a local elevator that goes to each floor in a section.
As a memorial to the victims of the bombing of the tower, a reflecting pool was installed with the names of those who had been killed in the blast.
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The Burj al-Arab (Arabic برج العرب "Tower of the Arabs") is a luxury hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates designed by Mr Thomas Wills Wright and was constructed by WS Atkins Partners (25°08′28″N, 55°11′08″E).
The disk near the top of the tower is a helicopter landing pad.
It is the world's tallest structure with a membrane façade and the world's tallest hotel (not including buildings with mixed use) and was the first 5-star hotel to surpass 1000 ft (305 m) in height.
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 Sumida Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumida Tower (すみだタワー Sumida-tawaa) is a proposed broadcasting tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.
If completed as planned, Sumida Tower would be the tallest free-standing tower in the world at 610m (2,001 ft), displacing the CN Tower in Toronto, and would also be the tallest man-made structure in Japan.
The Sumida Tower planning is being led by a group of six terrestrial broadcasters led by public broadcaster NHK, who plan to complete construction of the tower by 2011.
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 Oriental Pearl Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oriental Pearl Tower (东方明珠塔, pinyin: Dōngfāng Míngzhūtǎ) is a TV tower in Shanghai, China.
The Oriental Pearl Tower is located at the tip of Lujiazui in the Pudong district, by the side of Huangpu River, opposite The Bund of Shanghai.
At 468 m (1,535 feet) high, it is the tallest tower in Asia, and the third tallest tower in the world.
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A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc. See also:
But now standing at the southwest corner of the Paradise Valley church complex is a 30-foot tower with Arizona’s first carillon, the result of a $225,000...
Another Globe tower burned in Panabo CitySun.Star, Philippines - 27 minutes agoARMED men believed to be members of the New People's Army blew up another Globe tower, this time at Barangay New Malitbog in Panabo City, Saturday evening.
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 List of masts - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A Mast is a man-made support structure, commonly used on sailing ships as support for sails, or on land as radio masts and towers used to support telecommunication equipment such as radio antennas ("aerials" in the UK).
There is often crossover in term usage as some skyscraper use the tower term, some towers use the mast term, and ironically 'skyscraper' has some word heritage from references to high sailboat masts.
Top masts are ranked by pinnacle height; in the case of a tie, the older structure is ranked as higher.
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 Four partially guyed towers in Germany - SkyscraperPage Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
These towers are not so common: they consist of a free-standing lattice tower as basement and have a guyed upper section.
In China and in USA there seems to be no partially guyed towers, either such as Gerbrandy Tower in Netherland with a basement of concrete, nor such with a lattice tower as basement.
Of course Gerbrandy Tower and the tower of Zendstation Smilde are the tallest partial guyed towers.
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 Burj Al Alam Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Burj al Alam (World Tower in English) is a planned 108 story, 480m skyscraper in the Business Bay area of Dubai, UAE designed to resemble a crystal flower.
The tower is to be built by the Fortune Group which also have a number of other projects in Dubai such as the Fortune Bay and Fortune Tower.
It will contain 74 floors of office space, a retail area at the base, and a high-end hotel and serviced apartments in the top 27 floors.
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 Gerbrandy Tower - the tallest "X-mas tree" in the world - SkyscraperCity   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 375 metre high Gerbrandy Tower is a tower of a FM- and TV-broadcasting facility at Lopik, Netherlands (the mediumwave transmitter Lopik uses as aerial a guyed 196 metre high mast).
The Gerbrandy Tower consists of a 100 metre high free standing concrete tower with a 275 metre high guyed steel tube mast on its top.
the tower is always lighted like this, but without te lights on the cables.
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 List of masts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tower is a self-supporting or cantilevered structure, while a mast is held up by stays or guys.
Both towers and masts have limited floor space and are non-building structures, as opposed to regular buildings which have greater floor space for occupancy.
The Petronius Compliant Tower is an oil platform standing 2100 ft or 640 m (to the top of the spire) and is the tallest non-guyed structure in existence but is mostly underwater.
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 Gerbrandy Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Towers of this type don't fit well in existing classification hierarchies of free standing tower antennas or guyed masts since it incorporates elements from both.
One is the radio tower of Smilde (Netherlands), which consists of an 80 metre high concrete tower, on which a 223.5 metre high guyed mast is mounted.
Gerbrandy Tower, Kiev TV Tower, Mumbai Television Tower, Saint Petersburg TV Tower, Sumida Tower (proposed), TV Tower Yerevan, WITI TV Tower, Zendstation Smilde
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 Sky Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sky Tower is a tower located on the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand.
After two and a half years of construction, the tower was opened on March 3, 1997, six months ahead of schedule [1].
The tower is designed to withstand wind in excess of 210 km/h and resist earthquakes over a 1000 year period.
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It proposes to build a solar updraft tower power generating station known as Solar Tower Buronga in western New South Wales at a site 25 km northeast of Mildura.
The originally-announced design was for a massive 1 kilometre high tower and 7 kilometre diameter collector area, producing 200 megawatts, costing around AU$900 million.
There is no combustion, so it would produce little, if any, carbon dioxide (CO It has been estimated that a 50 MW tower can reduce 490,000 tonnes per year of CO emissions from equivalent brown coal power stations.
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 Tower Theater - Information
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