{"id":327,"date":"2005-08-19T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"skylon_tower_facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/19\/skylon_tower_facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylon Tower Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These stats were gathered from the Tower Information<\/em><\/a> and Facts & Stats<\/em><\/a> pages of the Skylon Tower website<\/a>. This is only a sampling of the stats I found most interesting. Be sure to visit those pages for more.<\/p>\n

SKYLON TOWER GENERAL FACTS AND STATS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Construction time<\/td>\nConstruction on the Tower was started in May, 1964<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grand Opening<\/td>\nOctober 6, 1965<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of observation decks<\/td>\n3 (2 dining rooms, 1 indoor\/outdoor observation deck)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total height of tower from base to top of flashing beacon<\/td>\n520 feet (160m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Height of tower above Maid of the Mist pool<\/td>\n775 feet (236m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight of concrete for tower<\/td>\n48,000,000 lbs. (21,772,800 kilograms)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight of concrete for base of Tower<\/td>\n13,200,000 lbs. (5,987,520 kilograms)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thickness of grey glass at Observatory Level (All windows in the three level Dome are washed monthly
\nby steeple jacks using free suspension from the outside)<\/td>\n		3\/8 inch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of elevators<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time it take the elevators to get to the top<\/td>\n52 seconds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of steps in each of the two stairways from lower exhibition floor to observation floor<\/td>\n662 steps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electrical wire and cable used in complex at time of construction<\/td>\n3,200 miles (5,150km)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Revolving Dining Room – Seating capacity<\/td>\n276 persons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Revolving Dining Room – Speed<\/td>\n1 complete revolution per hour, 3 h.p. motor required to turn floor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visibility of Observation on clear day<\/td>\n80 miles (129km)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
Number of bulbs on “Tree”<\/td>\n5,000 bulbs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Consumption<\/td>\n54,450 watts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of strands<\/td>\n30 strands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Be sure to check out the Niagara’s most famous landmark … next to the Falls<\/a> post to read about our impressions when we went up the tower. Also be sure to check out the Summer 2005 Skylon Tower gallery<\/a> to see all the beautiful pictures I took while we were up the tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These stats were gathered from the Tower Information and Facts & Stats pages of the Skylon Tower website. This is only a sampling of the stats I found most interesting. Be sure to visit those pages for more. SKYLON TOWER GENERAL FACTS AND STATS Construction time Construction on the Tower was started in May, 1964…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}