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  2. Nuremberg Airport - Wikipedia

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    The control tower at Nuremberg Airport was designed by architect Günther Behnisch and has become the architectural landmark of the airport with its dynamic silhouette. It was built because the original control tower was only 18 meters (59 ft) high. The project cost approximately 30 million DM (equivalent to €21,442,385 in 2021). [73]

  3. Narita International Airport - Wikipedia

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    There are three air traffic control towers at Narita. The main control tower and one of the ramp control towers stand on the geographical center the airport, and another ramp tower is directly above Terminal 2. The main tower is used by Japan Civil Aviation Bureau's ATC, while the ramp towers are used by the NAA officers. The ramp control will ...

  4. John F. Kennedy International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The air traffic control tower, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and constructed on the ramp-side of Terminal 4, began full FAA operations in October 1994. [180] An Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE) radar unit sits atop the tower. At the time of its completion, the JFK tower, at 320 feet (98 m), was the world's tallest control ...

  5. Taoyuan International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The new control tower The airport is operated by the Taoyuan International Airport Corporation , a company wholly owned by the Government of Taiwan. The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) is responsible for the provision of air traffic control services, certification of Taiwan registered aircraft, and the regulation of general civil ...

  6. Collapse of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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    The North Tower lasted around 46 minutes longer than its twin, having been struck 17 minutes before the South Tower was attacked and standing another half-hour after the South Tower collapsed. This was because Flight 11 struck more or less in the center, causing more symmetrical impact damage to the North Tower's core and leaving more of its ...

  7. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum about him. [8]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.

  8. Bell Labs - Wikipedia

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    Bell Labs [a] is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.