Longreads - Technology - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/category/longreads Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:32 GMT Feed43 Proxy/1.0 (www.feed43.com) 360 4ee03c2365e0f596a292cb84dc48a1f1 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:32 GMT Tower of Light: When Electricity Was New, People Used It to Mimic the Moon http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/tower-of-light-when-electricity-was-new-people-used-it-to-mimic-the-moon/273445/%22%20name=%22&lpos=LR%20River
Before streetlights became the standard way to light cities, town leaders looked to "moonlight towers" to provide mass illumination.
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