Elevatoring Communications Towers: 1956-1968

摘要

The infrastructure that supports modern communications systems (TV, telephone and radio) has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. Television antennae have vanished from rooftops, satellites and satellite dishes have replaced massive broadcast towers, and the newest incursions on the landscape - cell-phone towers - lack any pretense of engineering or aesthetic quality. The latter structures are also not accessible to the public and often viewed as unwelcome additions to their surrounding environment. (This is, perhaps, especially true of such towers "designed" to look like gigantic, misshapen fir trees.)