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Gilbert C FAURE
December 21, 2023 9:12 AM
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Projet concurrent de la tour Eiffel, la Colonne-Soleil projetait d’éclairer Paris depuis son sommet à plus de 300 mètres de hauteur : une idée farfelue ?
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December 28, 2021 5:22 AM
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Imagine that instead of a bunch of different lamps, we have one giant one, on a tower 150 feet tall.
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November 21, 2017 8:39 AM
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A moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night. The towers were popula
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April 8, 2015 2:19 PM
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Moonlight towers or moontowers are lighting structures designed to illuminate areas of a city at night. The towers were popular in the late 19th century in cities across the United States and Europe; they were most common in the 1880s and 1890s.
Modi might have read about Moonlight Towers and mistook it for street lighting using real moonlight: http://t.co/HimRZLxGQP
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February 2, 2015 1:24 PM
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The Murder Mystery Legend Behind Austin’s Iconic Moonlight Towers
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July 22, 2014 9:44 AM
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July 22, 2014 9:36 AM
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In 1895, the city installed its first public lighting system, the Moonlight Towers, and one of the original 31 towers can still be seen at the corner of South First and Monroe. After the Civil War, a number of Bouldin's now-freed ...
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February 5, 2012 2:55 PM
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When electric power was in its infancy, there was a debate on how exactly to light up a city. Today we have settled on streetlights lining the sidewalks, but once upon a time, they had giant towers that re-created the moon.
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Gilbert C FAURE
November 19, 2023 4:43 AM
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Projet de phare monumental pour Paris, élévation / Jules Bourdais (1835 - 1915) Oeuvre non exposée en salle actuellement Autres oeuvres de l'auteur Au cours du XIXe siècle, l'idée d'une tour colossale renaît dans le cerveau des Ingénieurs.
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December 10, 2018 8:25 AM
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Before streetlights became the standard way to light cities, town leaders looked to "moonlight towers" to provide mass illumination.
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February 10, 2017 2:14 PM
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The steel towers were part of a spectacular but short-lived city lighting experiment.
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March 20, 2015 12:43 PM
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detroithistoricalsociety:
“This image, taken from a c. 1898 report from the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, shows one of the city’s moonlight towers. A system of these 150-foot, arc...
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January 30, 2015 1:13 PM
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Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy.
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July 22, 2014 9:42 AM
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March 9, 2013 11:07 AM
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Before Cities Had Street Lights, They Had Giant Towers That Mimicked the Moon
The Atlantic Cities
What they were less sure of, though, was how they would get that light.
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January 29, 2012 3:09 PM
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When electric power was in its infancy, there was a debate on how exactly to light up a city. Today we have settled on streetlights lining the sidewalks, but once upon a time, they had giant towers that re-created the moon.
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