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## [Moonlight Towers in Austin, Texas](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/moonlight-towers-in-austin-texas/4036)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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Before electric street lighting became common, a number of cities, particularly in the U.S. midwest and west, where gas lighting was impractical and too expensive, and before widespread of residential elect…