A fire control tower is a structure located near the coastline, used to detect and locate enemy vessels offshore, direct fire upon them from coastal batteries...

A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it...

On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, England, at 00:54 BST and...

Fire Control Tower No. 23 is a NRHP-listed tower located in Lower Township of Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The tower was built in 1942...

and an L-Tower (German: Leitturm) "Lead Tower" also known as the Fire-control tower, command tower, listening bunker or small flak tower. Generation...

terms "base end station" and "fire control tower" were used interchangeably. In general, however, a fire control tower (FCT) was a structure built to...

Searchlights, anti-aircraft batteries, and a 60-foot (18 m) lattice-style fire control tower were mounted on the fort's upper surface. The living quarters for...

In the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, the term fire control system was used to refer to the personnel, facilities, technology and procedures that were...

the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate. Most of the tower was destroyed in a severe fire on 14 June 2017. The building's top 20 storeys consisted...

A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist...

early main battery fire control consisted of the Fire Control Tower, two Mark 38 Gun Fire Control Systems (GFCS), and fire control equipment located in...

family of devices were deployed in position finding cells, a type of fire control tower, often in configurations that allowed both horizontal base and vertical...

Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...

A fortified tower (also defensive tower or castle tower or, in context, just tower) is one of the defensive structures used in fortifications, such as...

beginning of the Islamic months, and to operate an atomic clock that controls the tower clock faces. The building is topped by a four-faced clock, visible...

and control towers, used on airports or harbours. The Romans built numerous towers as part of a system of communications, one example being the towers along...

in World War II, during which the former western lighthouse was a fire control tower. Cape Elizabeth Light, designed in the Gothic Revival style, was added...

A plotting room was the co-ordination centre of a fire control system for guns used against enemy ships or aircraft, whether naval guns or coastal artillery...

Likewise, Russian literature often refers to the turret of a tank as the 'tower'. The safe room on a ship is also called a citadel. List of citadels Acropolis...

for ammunition and fire control, but construction was suspended in 1944 and the battery was never armed. A six-story fire control tower was constructed to...

during World War II. They were located on the mainmast and forward fire-control tower of the battleships, respectively. As the war drew to a close, the...

flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced...

structure. Cladding may also be a control element for noise, either entering or escaping. Cladding can become a fire risk by design or material. Cladding...

the one further away. This was used to trap enemies, and burning wood or fire-heated sand would usually be dropped onto them from murder-holes or the roof...

reservation Ammunition and fire control bunker for BCN 211, former Fort Greene south reservation Former fire control tower resembling a barn silo, former...

gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes. In...

tour-reduits were also built. These were redoubts built in the form of a tower, with rows of musketry loopholes. Three were around Marsaxlokk Bay, and...

including a network of 20 fire control towers. Battery 223's guns were never fired at an enemy, though there were drills and live fire tests. As the war turned...

On 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST; it caused...

fortified tower houses in the Middle Ages, locally known as "vassal castles", as a means of exercising control over the conquered areas. These tower houses...