The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

The wall follows typical Mycenaean convention in that it followed the natural contour of the terrain and its gate was arranged obliquely, with a parapet and tower overhanging the incomers ' right-hand side, thus facilitating defense.

A large tower was added, the " Frankopyrgos " ( Tower of the Franks ), demolished in the 19th century.

The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.

A Carillon was installed in the tower in the middle of the 20th century, the bells for which were provided by the centuries-old bell manufacturers of Aarau.

It was unclear how the Sultan got hold of scissors in his tower prison cell and how he managed to cut two wrists at once, since no autopsy was allowed afterwards.

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

* Ansbach was home of the astronomer Simon Marius, who observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower.

It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.

* The Cardinalis tower was constructed in the 14th century as a bell tower for the Dominican convent, which was founded on the bequest of Hugh of Saint-Cher.

A tower house was built on the estate by the Gordons.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

Yet there is now little doubt that the hollow-walled broch tower was purely an invention from what is now Scotland, or that even the kinds of pottery found inside them that most resembled south British styles were local hybrid forms.

The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

Lime or limestone in slurry form is also injected into the tower to mix with the stack gases and combine with the sulfur dioxide present.

The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

" However, it also potentially has the effect of prohibiting tourist photographs of the tower at night from being published, as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the tower.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Eiffel had meteorological measuring equipment placed on the tower in 1889, and also built a weather station at his house in Sèvres.

He also builds a tall tower in order to further his quest for knowledge.

Ewing also designed the apex sculptures of Truth, Riches, and Honour, and the statues of The Four Seasons on the Chamber's tower.

Stone from the cove was also used to construct the nearby church of St Buryan, whose 92 foot granite tower is an imposing local landmark often used as a line of sight by fishermen coming into port.

It was in 1978 that Yamasaki also designed the Federal Reserve Bank tower in Richmond, Virginia.

In most cases, the tower was made of timber, though some were also made of stones.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

A siege tower, a substantial structure built to equal or greater height than the fortification's walls, could allow the attackers to fire down upon the defenders and also advance troops to the wall with less danger than using ladders.

Siege towers also became more elaborate during the medieval period ; at the Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, for example, 200 archers and 11 catapults operated from a single tower.

The gate itself is disproportionate: the bottom has been cut off to accommodate a rise in street level, which can also be seen in the steps leading down to the foot of L staircase in the gate tower.

Edward also appears in Robin Maxwell's To The Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes a story of what might have happened to the princes while they were in the tower.

A variety of materials can be used to construct a typical water tower ; steel and reinforced or prestressed concrete are most often used ( with wood, fiberglass, or brick also in use ), incorporating an interior coating to protect the water from any effects from the lining material.

A water tower also serves as a reservoir to help with water needs during peak usage times.

This process also keeps the water from freezing in cold weather, since the tower is constantly being drained and refilled.

The church original was in Catalan-Gothic style, as it can be seen in the five chapels of the presbytery, which also include the base of the bell tower.

A number of new public buildings were also added including ; the Arsenal ( 1610 – 19 ), the town hall with its north staircase tower ( 1632 – 34 ) and its eastern facade ( Archive tower 1624, completed 1703-14 ), the Jesuit church ( 1680 – 89 ), the new Ambassadorenhof ( 1717 – 24 ), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb ( 1735 – 1800 ) and the new classicist Church of St. Ursus ( 1763 – 90 ).

The windows at the top of the tower open into a room used by Turing.

* Armstrong Tower — tall lattice tower built and used by Edwin Armstrong in 1938

Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform one or another type of calculations include the planisphere and other mechanical computing devices invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( c. AD 1000 ); the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c. AD 1015 ); the astronomical analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers ; and the astronomical clock tower of Su Song ( c. AD 1090 ) during the Song Dynasty.

The high transmission tower was re-sited from London, where it had been used for early ITV transmissions.

One of the buildings was a bell tower, designed to resemble the bachi used when playing traditional instruments like the shamisen.

During World War Two, the tower was used as a look out tower by the home guard.

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

They were designed and used to test spacecraft recovery systems, and escape tower and rocket motors.

Together with a Mercury boilerplate it was used to test the escape tower and abort procedures.

Consequently, mosque architects borrowed the shape of the bell tower for their minarets, which were used for essentially the same purpose — calling the faithful to prayer ..

Pyramids have occasionally been used in Christian architecture of the feudal era, e. g. as the tower of Oviedo's Gothic Cathedral of San Salvador.

The architect conceived the great square tower as the keep of a legislative " castle " ( echoing his selection of the portcullis as his identifying mark in the planning competition ), and used it as the royal entrance to the Palace and as a fireproof repository for the archives of Parliament.

The Power Mac brand name was used for Apple's high-end tower style computers, targeted primarily at businesses and creative professionals, in differentiation to their more compact " iMac " line ( intended for home use ) and the " eMac " line ( for the education markets ).

* When combined with a zoom, a tracking shot can become a dolly zoom, famously used to create a sense of vertigo in the church tower scenes in Hitchcock's Vertigo ( 1958 ).

The structure's walls consist of three components: an outer layer ( tilted inwards and made of many layers of stones whose size diminishes with height: mostly, lower layers consist of rubble masonry, while upper layers tend to ashlar masonry ) shaped like a tower, an inner layer, made of smaller stones ( to form a bullet shaped dome called " Tholos ": ashlar masonry is used here more frequently ), an intermediate layer of very small pieces and dirt, which makes the whole construction very sturdy: it stands only by virtue of the weight of its stones, which may each amount to several tons.

( 240 actual pennies, however, weighed only 5400 troy grains, known as tower pound, a unit used only by mints.

The Mycenaean Greeks used two types of shields: the " figure eight " or " fiddle " shield, and a rectangular type, the " tower " shield, curved on the top.

VHF requires a much smaller antenna, and unless being used on a high powered repeater, does not have a very tall tower.

The sum was then used toward the purchase of a few stones which still form the base of the bell tower.