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Masts,Towers & Pylons

In my early telecomms years I was taught that a mast , to be a mast , had to be a guyed structure ( just like on a ship) and that anything else was a tower.
This seemed a reasonable definition and/or differentiation but how many people stick to this rule nowadays ?
Also ,where does a pylon fit in ?
I'd be very interested to know how others define these structures and do these definitions change from one industry to another - e.g. between the telecomms and power industries?
Ken
  

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[/nq] I can't help but associate "pylon" with this sort of image.

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[nq:1]Also ,where does a pylon fit in ?[/nq]
I can't help but associate "pylon" with this sort of image.

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[nq:2]Also ,where does a pylon fit in ?[/nq]
[nq:1]I can't help but associate "pylon" with this sort of image.[/nq]
Me too, but it is probably because that word came into my vocabulary as a youth watching "Lonad of the Lost".
But I also associate it with the end zone markers on a football field.

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[nq:1]In my early telecomms years I was taught that a mast , to be a mast , hadto be a ... these structures and do these definitions change from one industry to another - e.g. between the telecomms and power industries?[/nq]
First time I saw the word "pylon" was in the reading of some adolescent adventure novel about air races. I believe the races and stories were "pre-war". I can even recall
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[nq:1]In my early telecomms years I was taught that a mast , to be a mast , had to be ... these structures and do these definitions change from one industry to another - e.g. between the telecomms and power industries?[/nq]
In my USan experience most such structures are towers, whether guyed or unguyed. Unguyed latticework towers are also called "self-supporting" towers, but I wouldn't use tha
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[nq:2]In my early telecomms years I was taught that a ... to another - e.g. between the telecomms and power industries?[/nq]
[nq:1]In my USan experience most such structures are towers, whether guyed or unguyed. Unguyed latticework towers are also called "self-supporting" ... attached. I think of pylons as markers for air races and such, or the steel towers supporting high-voltage power lines.
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[nq:2]I can't help but associate "pylon" with this sort of image.[/nq]
[nq:1]Me too, but it is probably because that word came into my vocabulary as a youth watching "Lonad of the Lost". But I also associate it with the end zone markers on a football field.[/nq]
In Britain, pylons are often associated with electricity distribution. Here's a site with lots of them, worldwide.

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[nq:2]Me too, but it is probably because that word came ... it with the end zone markers on a football field.[/nq]
[nq:1]In Britain, pylons are often associated with electricity distribution. Here's a site with lots of them, worldwide. http://www.gorge.org/pylons/page1.shtml[/nq]
As John Betjeman wrote, a
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[nq:2]I think of pylons as markers for air races and such, or the steel towers supporting high-voltage power lines.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think a pylon ought to be tapered. I don't know why I think that: I just do. Maybe because the only pylons that I would unequivocally give that name to are those Egyptian temple gateways and the power line supporters that you mention.[/nq]
Perhaps it ought, but s
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[nq:1]Perhaps it ought, but straight pylons exist. I've seen some inverted ones even, narrow at the base, wide at the top.[/nq]
Broad at the shoulder, and narrow at the hip,
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip
To Big John.

Paul
In bocca al Lupo!
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[nq:1]I can't help but associate "pylon" with this sort.[/nq]
This is frightening...three of us now admit that their primary reference for the word was those mysterious things built by the ancestors of the Sleestak...that the writers were constantly sending the characters into the structures probably engenders false associations, and lord knows what damage was

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