These tall, hexagonal, cast-iron boxes were painted red and had large gas lanterns fixed to the roof, as well as a mechanism which enabled the central police station to light the lanterns as signals to police officers in the vicinity to call the station for instructions.

The basalt cliffs resemble the cliffs of the Devils Postpile National Monument near Yosemite National Park, with the characteristic reddish purple hexagonal columns, except that they are not as tall.

Each corner of the building is canted and has a tall hexagonal turret that is topped by a stone cupola, which would have originally been crowned by a lantern.

Hayward's Gothic Revival design-a tall medieval hall framed with hexagonal turrets-is predominantly faced in grey and pink granite with sandstone tracery.

On each corner are hexagonal towers, about thirteen meters tall.

Mildenhall centres on a market place with a 16th-century hexagonal market cross and town pump.

Settlements have hexagonal market areas, and are most efficient in number and functions.

The fully assembled device had a hexagonal cross section, 1. 25 meter in diameter and weighed 1400 kg.

Modern plastic screwdrivers use a handle with a roughly hexagonal cross section to achieve these same two goals, a far cry from the pear-shaped handle of the original 15th century screwdriver.

Ommatidia are typically hexagonal in cross section, and approximately ten times longer than wide.

Cartons with a hexagonal or octagonal cross sections are sometimes used for specialty items.

The tower, a reinforced structure, is surmounted by a hexagonal pyramid and cross, with a tower clock in three of four faces.

Each ameloblast is approximately 4 micrometers in diameter, 40 micrometers in length and has a hexagonal cross section.

The cross is hexagonal in plan, in three stages.

The main spar cables of the bridge are hexagonal in cross section, composed of thousands of elementary steel wires of seven different diameters, partly because early computers were unable to provide solution for a circular cross section main cable batch.

Cotati's hexagonal downtown plaza, one of only two hexagonal town layouts in the United States, is California Historical Landmark number 879.

The old town has an hexagonal form, which derives from the ancient walls, and the main buildings are from the 16th-17th centuries.

The single-room hexagonal church of S. Maria del Ponte in the lower part of town, though in its present form dating to the 16th century and reworked in the 18th, replaces a medieval church ; a medieval church of S. Bartolomeo has also disappeared.

The most important monument in the town is the Catholic church of Sant Vicent Màrtir, with an hexagonal tower.

The only improvement he made to the land, as far as is known, was the erection of a hunting lodge near the present town of Harvey, known as " The Hut ", featuring a shingled roof, jarrah walls and hexagonal paving blocks.

At the centre of the macula is the foveal pit where the cones are smallest and in a hexagonal mosaic, the most efficient and highest density.

The design of the stamp was hexagonal with the head of Edward VII in a circle in the centre.

The ministry of General Affairs is in the centre, with on the centre left a hexagonal tower, named het Torentje, which is the office of the prime minister

The president is elected biennually and wears a badge in the form of a spoked wheel, with the standing figure of Joseph Priestley depicted in enamel, mainly in red and blue, on a hexagonal medallion in the centre.

One part of the city centre maintains the name of Šanac (' trench ') after the old trenches which preserve the old hexagonal form of the historic centre.

As cooling continued these cracks gradually extended toward the centre of the flow, forming the long hexagonal columns we see in the wave eroded cross-section today.

In its centre rises the Solomon Tower, a large, hexagonal residential tower dating from the 13th century.

Apart from the fact that no mills were built like this in the 1740s, once the raised floor of the tea-rooms was removed from the hexagonal concrete round-house constructed in 1907, it is clear that the post, as is to be expected, is suspended above the ground, by diagonal quarter bars held in place against the cross-trees, themselves resting on brick piers, and that the base of the post is wedged into the centre of the cross-trees, with the wedges used to balance the post and adjust for the varying distribution of weight in the buck as stones, sails and machinery are added or removed.

There is a central hexagonal area where canon or rifle fire could be directed down six thoroughfares radiating from the centre.

The pulpit also dates from the 17th-century, and is made from Norwegian oak, topped with an hexagonal sounding board, with a dancing cherub on each corner.

The modern castle dates from between the 15th and early 17th-centuries, when the successive ruling families of the Herberts and the Somersets created a luxurious, fortified castle, complete with a large hexagonal keep, known as the Great Tower or the Yellow Tower of Gwent.

In assembling M39 rifles, Finnish armorers re-used hexagonal receivers that dated back as far as 1894.

The scales along the dorsal ridge of the back are hexagonal.

It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.

Staffa's most famous feature is Fingal's Cave, a large sea cave located near the southern tip of the island some 20 m high and 75 m long formed in cliffs of hexagonal basalt columns.

It has 30 square faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 12 regular decagonal faces, 120 vertices and 180 edges – more than any other nonprismatic uniform polyhedron.

Nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of aragonite ( a form of calcium carbonate ) 10 – 20 µm wide and 0. 5 µm thick arranged in a continuous parallel lamina.

There can be from 8 to 20 ribs, are rather low and normally marked with raised, angular or hexagonal tubercles.

For circular fibers in a closely packed hexagonal array, the packing efficiency is given by: Af where Af, and 0.906 is the ratio of the area of a circle to that of the circumscribed hexagon.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

That is, one may generate an inverse hexagonal columnar phase ( columns of water encapsulated by amphiphiles ) or an inverse micellar phase ( a bulk liquid crystal sample with spherical water cavities ).

The nearly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of mica, is explained by the hexagonal sheet-like arrangement of its atoms.

Further annealing at 800 ° C and then at 1750 ° C irreversibly transforms it to a monoclinic and hexagonal phases, respectively, and the last two phases can be interconverted by adjusting the annealing time and temperature.

* Church of Santa Maria del Quartiere ( 1604 – 1619 ), characterized by a usual hexagonal plan.

His examples included two he had investigated experimentally: slave-making ants and the construction of hexagonal cells by honey bees.

As shown by X-ray crystallography, the hexagonal symmetry of snowflakes results from the tetrahedron | tetrahedral arrangement of hydrogen bond s about each water molecule.

Also in 1919 sodium nitrate ( NaNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and caesium dichloroiodide ( CsICl < sub > 2 </ sub >) were determined by Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, and the wurtzite ( hexagonal ZnS ) structure became known in 1920.

In an alternative view, the atomic structure can be described as a hexagonal, close-packed array of oxygen ions with half of the octahedral sites occupied with magnesium or iron ions and one-eighth of the tetrahedral sites occupied by silicon ions.

The vessel is set at the bottom of a hexagonal " basket " of solar panels that in turn provide tether connections to the balloon system above, and is surrounded by a ring of pipes acting as a heat exchanger.

Once a player has collected one wedge of each color ( to fill up their playing piece ), they make their way toward the hexagonal hub and answer a question in a category selected by the other players.

To support the tower ’ s record heights and slim footprint, he developed the “ buttressed core ” structural system, consisting of a hexagonal core reinforced by three buttresses that form a Y shape.

The hexagonal variation of the game, played on a six by six by six board, is called TacTex.

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.

The 1993 excavations revealed that the apse was polygonal and flanked by hexagonal towers, forming a westwork.

It is unique among the surviving crosses in having a triangular plan, and a taller and more slender profile with a lower tier entirely covered with diapering, instead of the arch-and-gable motif with tracery which appears on both the others ; and canopied statues surmounted by a slender hexagonal pinnacle.

This harbour became silted up and needed to be supplemented later by a harbor built by Trajan finished in the year AD 113 ; it has a hexagonal form, in order to reduce the erosive forces of the waves.

* A player could " copper " his bet by placing a hexagonal ( 6-sided ) token called a " copper " on it.

From the same epoch is the hexagonal baptismal font, with panels of the Histories of St. John the Baptist, by Giovanni d ' Agostino.

Cotati's hexagonal plaza and street grid plan was designed during the 1890s by Newton Smyth as an alternative to the traditional grid.

In fact, the artistic legacy of his reign is slight, especially when compared to that of his successors, James IV and James V. Such evidence as there is consists of portrait coins produced during his reign that display the king in three-quarter profile wearing an imperial crown, the Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, which was probably not commissioned by the king, and an unusual hexagonal chapel at Restalrig near Edinburgh, perhaps inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.