Konstantynów
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Konstantynów is a city in Poland, corporated in 1924, but originally founded in the 1820s by a landowner who had planned to build a textile industry there. Located at a Latitude of 52° 15' 0 North and a Longitude of 18° 31' 0 East and an altitude of 102 metres.
Konstantynow is also a part of the Polish town Gąbin. From 1974 to 1991 the tallest structure mankind ever built stood here, the Warsaw radio mast. This mast was a 646.38 metre high guyed radio mast in steel-framework construction with triangular cross section with a side length of 4.8 metres and a weight of 420 tons. This mast was used for the 2000 kilowatt longwave transmitter of the Polish broadcasting authority as aerial and was therefore insulated against ground for a voltage of 120 kilovolts. It collapsed during renovation work on August 8th, 1991. Nobody was killed in this accident.
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