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There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.
Joseph Stromberg • The bizarre history of cellphone towers disguised as trees
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The mushroom seems to have been pioneered in Detroit a few years earlier, but without illumination; the illuminated “Milwaukee-type” mushroom proved popular for a few years in the 1920s, with several firms manufacturing competing versions.
Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
But I also could see, from the location of the Tower, a kind of brightness of its own, a sort of refracted phosphorescence, that did not bear thinking about. That I could see it, that I had an affinity to it, agitated me. I was certain no one else left here, not the surveyor, not the psychologist, could see that stirring of the inexplicable.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
“Staggered” lighting was set up so that lights would always be green for a motorist moving at a particular speed (usually 25 mph). The first such system, installed on Sixteenth Street in Washington, D.C.,…
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Untangling the Mystery of the World’s First Rooftop Solar Panel - bellingcat
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