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Following the invention by Thomas Edison of the incandescent light bulb, illuminating public streets with electric lamps gradually became more common during the latter part of the 19th Century, but rather than the comparatively short streetlamps most of us are familiar with today, many US cities were lit by tall towers which illuminated large areas. Streetlamps would have been impractical for a lot of American cities and towns of the time because so many of their roadways were unsurfaced and unpaved.

Today, the only city in the US which retains at least some of its lighting towers is Austin, Texas, and they are affectionately called The Moonlight Towers.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_tower
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Coordinates:   30°16'39"N   97°45'15"W
This article was last modified 19 years ago