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If you look closely at one of Austin’s iconic moonlight towers you’ll see the telltale signs of a pulley system — the original way that workers had to scale the towers daily to change out the arc lights at the top. KUT listener Justin Clemens was curious about who changes the light bulbs in the towers, so he reached out to KUT’s #ATXplained project. Multimedia producer @MichaelMinasi spoke with professor and researcher Bruce Hunt at @UTAustinTX to find out more about the origins of the towers, a