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4 unusual facts about John Hancock Tower


Calspan

Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory conducted wind tunnel test on models of a number of skyscraper buildings, including most notably the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hancock

John Hancock Tower, a building in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by the insurance firm

Spontaneous glass breakage

This was the cause of extensive glass breakage at the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

WEDX

The station did move its transmitter from WLYN's tower in Lynn to Medford in 1987 and to One Financial Center in Boston in 2006 to provide a better signal within the market; from 1998 to 2006, a translator station, W276AI (101.3 FM) was operated from the John Hancock Tower to improve WFNX's reception in Boston, but was discontinued when the move to One Financial Center rendered it redundant.



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