Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Most Chilling Moments in History

Telephone Tower

The old Stockholm telephone tower connected over 5,000 telephone wires to households and businesses in 1887. The structure was a bit of an eyesore for the city’s residents, and eventually, telephone companies decided to start burying the wires underground. The tower burnt down in 1953 from unrelated causes.

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