MOONLIGHT TOWERS Austin, Texas - known for the University of Texas, the state capitol and great music - is also home to the Moonlight Towers, which are 165-foot-tall towers that support outdoor lighting for parts of Austin. Thirty-one towers were built in 1895 using electricity from Austin’s first power plant on the Colorado River. They first used carbon arc lamps lit every night by a worker who rode an elevator to the top up the center of

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