Coop's Shot Tower
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Coop's Shot Tower | |
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![]() Coop's Shot Tower ditutupi dengan kaca berbentuk kerucut di Melbourne Central | |
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Informasi umum | |
Koordinat | 37°48′37″S 144°57′47″E / 37.810301°S 144.962947°E |
Rampung | 21 Juni 1889[1][2] |
Tinggi | 50 meter (160 ft)[3] |
Dimensions | |
Dimensi lainnya | tungku dengan materi batu bata refraktori fondasi sedalam 40 kaki tembok dengan ketebalan tiga kaki[4][5] |
Data teknis | |
Jumlah lantai | 12 landing place[6] |
Desain dan konstruksi | |
Kontraktor utama | Messrs. Fenson and Hetherington |
Coop's Shot Tower adalah menara yang digunakan untuk memproduksi pelet gotri tepat di pusat kawasan niaga terpadu Melbourne, Australia.[7] Pembangunan Coop's Shot Tower rampung pada tahun 1889[1][2] dan mempunyai ketinggian 50 meter. Coop's Shot Tower tidak kena perobohan pada tahun 1973 dan dijadikan sebagai bagian dari kompleks Pusat Perbelanjaan Melbourne Central pada tahun 1991 yang ditutupi kaca berbentuk kerucut dengan ketinggian 84 meter.
Coop's Shot Tower mempunyai 9 lantai dan selain itu mempunyai 327 anak tangga dari lantai dasar ke atas.
Referensi
- ^ a b "A New Shot Tower". The Age (10,711). Victoria, Australia. 22 June 1889. hlm. 10. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia., ...A number of gentlemen assembled at Mr. Walter Coop's lead manufacturing works in Little Lonsdale-street yesterday afternoon to witness the ceremony of placing the last brick on a new shot tower erected...
- ^ a b Sides, Carol (2 February 1982). "Looking at the Melbourne many people do not know". The Age. hlm. 20. Diakses tanggal 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Wills and Bequests". Table Talk (297). Victoria, Australia. 27 February 1891. hlm. 12. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia. ...Originally the structure was 80 feet in height, but after sundry experiments it was found insufficient for making chilled shot, so it has been increased to 154 foot,..
- ^ "Making Shot". Daily Mercury. 76 (31). Queensland, Australia. 5 February 1942. hlm. 2. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia., ... It was built of furnace firebricks in conformity with the custom of British industry in the Victorian era to stand for centuries and to produce the best. The foundations are 40ft. deep, and the walls 3 ft, thick...
- ^ "The Contributor. How Shot is Made". Leader (1869). Victoria, Australia. 7 November 1891. hlm. 36. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Shot Tower Ablaze". The Herald (14,563). Victoria, Australia. 18 November 1922. hlm. 4. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Coop's Shot Tower and Flanking Building, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H0067, Heritage Overlay HO681". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Diakses tanggal 2011-11-28.
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