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pylon) Electricity pylons are tall, metal structures used to support electric power cables. Pylons have become an increasingly common feature of rural landscapes all over the world. Electricity substations contain transformers for converting the high voltage electricity of the national grid, delivered from power stations via pylons, to the lower voltage supplied to the domestic user. In modern usage, a steel lattice tower that supports high-tension electrical cables. In ancient Egyptian architecture, a pylon is one of a pair of inward-sloping towers that flank an entrance. |
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| In Paddington all Cornwall is latent and the remoter west; down the inclines of Liverpool Street lie fenlands and the illimitable Broads; Scotland is through the pylons of Euston; Wessex behind the poised chaos of Waterloo. No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg. |
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