Field Guide to Rodside Technology
Published on 1. June 2006
208 pages
978-1-61374-177-1 (ISBN)
Description
This fascinating handbook answers the questions of anyone who has ever wondered about the many strange devices found along the roadside, from utility poles to satellite dishes. Devices are grouped according to their habitats-along highways and roads, atop buildings, near airports, and on utility towers. More than 150 different roadside technologies are covered, and each detailed entry describes what the device does, how it works, and also includes a photograph for easy identification. With helpful sidebars describing related technical issues such as why stoplights are constructed with the red light on top, this handbook for curious readers provides carefully detailed descriptions and the history behind many of the devices that roadside travelers take for granted.
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Ed Sobey
A Field Guide to Roadside Technology
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Content
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 HIGHWAYS AND ROADWAYS
- Traffic Signal
- Traffic Signal Control Box
- Induction Vehicle Detector
- Video Detection Camera
- Microwave Vehicle Detector
- Emergency Preemption Detector
- Traffic Surveillance Camera
- Traffic Counter
- Audible Crossing Signal
- Parking Meter
- In-Ground Pavement Lighting System
- Overheight Vehicle Detector and Warning System
- Radar Gun
- Laser Speed Gun
- Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)
- Deer Reflector
- Exhaust Plume
- Electric Heater Plug
- Toll Payment Transponder
- 2 BRIDGES
- Bascule Bridge
- Lift Bridge
- Swing Bridge
- Girder (Beam) Bridge
- Cantilever Bridge
- Truss Bridge
- Arch Bridge
- Suspension Bridge
- Cable-Stayed Bridge
- Floating Bridge
- 3 FIELDS AND STREAMS
- Fish Trap
- Fish Ladder
- Stream-Gauging Station
- Cableway Stream-Gauging Station
- Insect Trap
- Electric Fence
- Wind Machine
- Center Pivot Irrigation System
- Traveling Big Gun Irrigation System
- Side-Wheel Irrigation System
- Pump and Stem Pipe Flood Irrigation System
- 4 ON THE GROUND
- Water Sampling Station
- Backflow Preventer
- Water Valve Cover
- Storm Drain
- Manhole Cover
- Water Meter
- Gas Meter
- Gas Valve Cover
- Natural Gas Regulator
- Telephone Pedestal
- Cross-Connection Box
- Cable Pedestal
- Cable Vault
- Hand Hole
- Aerial Survey Marker
- Geodetic Control Station
- Border Reference Monument
- Railroad Signal Bungalow
- Railroad Manual Switch
- 5 INDUSTRIAL SITES, BUILDINGS, AND THINGS ATTACHED TO BUILDINGS
- Electric Power Plants
- Fossil Fuel Power Plants
- Gas-Fired Power Plant
- Coal-Fired Power Plant
- Oil-Fired Power Plant
- Hydroelectric Power Plant
- Wind Turbine/Generator
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Geothermal Power Plant
- Step-Up Transformer
- Electric Power Substation
- Electric Fuse
- Natural Draft Cooling Tower
- Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower
- Oil Refinery
- Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Lift Station
- Lightning Rod
- High-Rise (Tower) Crane
- Gas Station Pump
- Hydraulic Lift
- Underground Tank Vent Pipes
- Water Storage Tank
- 6 ANTENNAS
- Amateur-Radio Antenna
- Microwave Antenna
- Radio Station Transmitting Antenna
- Television Antenna
- Television Satellite Dish Antenna
- Satellite Broadcast (Uplink) Antenna
- Radio Telescope
- Cell Telephone Tower
- Doppler Radar
- Citizen's Band (CB) Antenna
- Wireless Internet Transmitter/Receiver
- Antenna for Satellite Internet Service
- Auto Satellite Radio Antenna
- Antenna Field
- 7 IN THE AIR AND NEAR AIRPORTS
- VOR Station
- Deicing Boot
- Pitot Tube
- Vortex Generator
- Ground Power Unit (GPU)
- 8 NEAR NAVIGABLE WATERS
- Channel Marker Buoy
- Lighted Bell Buoy
- Range Marker
- Lighthouse
- Lightship
- Large Navigational Buoy
- Ship Radar and Communication Antenna
- Super Post-Panamax Crane
- Container Ship
- Log Carrier
- Bulk Carrier
- Cable-Laying Ship
- Floating Dry Dock
- Ferry
- Oceanographic Research Ship
- Icebreaker
- Plimsoll Mark
- 9 ON UTILITY POLES AND TOWERS
- Directional Map for a Utility Pole
- Push Brace Pole
- Utility Pole ID
- Utility Pole Manual Switch
- Grounding Wire
- Residential Drop Wires
- Distribution Transformer
- Electrical Distribution Wires
- Bird Deflector
- Control Data Center
- Insulator
- Regulator Bank
- Capacitor Bank
- High-Voltage Wires
- Telephone Systems
- House Protector
- Telephone Drop Wire
- Telephone Riser Pipe
- Aerial Service Terminal
- Splice Box
- Load Point
- T1-Line Extender
- Service Terminal for Optical Fiber Cables
- 6-Pair Can
- Cable Television or Broadband Service
- Spice Enclosure
- Shoe
- Tap
- Line Extender
- Cable Power Supply
- Bridger and Trunk Amplifier
- Node
- Head End
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
