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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

embrasures, and various British gun emplacements, magazines and a fire control tower. No. 2 Curtain – curtain wall between No. 2 and No. 3 bastions, containing...

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...

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...

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...

role. Additionally, they functioned as watch-towers, where garrisoned personnel could light signal fires to warn of approaching danger. The FISH Vocabulary...

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...

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. Medieval...

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...

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...

front of the curtain walls and bastions (towers) to absorb the impact of cannon shots or to deflect them. Towers were lowered to the same height as the...

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...

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...

batteries are in a good state of preservation as shown by photos. The fire control tower at Big Stone Beach remains. Seacoast defense in the United States...