Moonlight Towers were lighting structures designed to light up large areas of a city at night. The towers were equipped with powerful Arc Lamps, which were the earliest form of electrical municipal lighting. Moonlight Towers were the predecessor to street lamps. The tower lamps could throw light for greater distances, roughly a 1,500 foot radius, from a 300 foot tall tower, which allowed them to illuminate several city blocks. It is said, that during the 1880s, many U.S. cities, and some European cities, constructed Moonlight Tower grid systems to light up designated areas of the city.

Arc Lamps, also known as "Electric Candles", had a distinctive bright white light and emitted a unique buzzing sound. Throughout the night, as the arc lamps burned, they would shed small shreds of burning ash as the carbon electrodes quickly burned. It is said, that the electrodes needed to be replaced often. This could be because the inheritors of the Moonlight Towers didn't know how to properly operate the towers and the arc lamps, and they burned the carbon rods incorrectly. This would explain the accounts of ash and sparks coming off of the arc lamps on top of the towers. Perhaps the original builders had the lighting system connected to aether energy harnassing devices, and had the lighting towers operating at a high level of efficiency.

Due to the height of the towers, a counter-balanced "dumbwaiter" elevator was designed as part of the tower, to more easily service the carbon electrodes. Tower keepers often lived in an Old World house at the base of the towers, similar to Light House keepers. Adding the "dumbwaiter" elevator system as an aftermarket addition makes mores sense if we consider that "our" civilization didn't know how to harnass free energy or maintain the arc lamps. Perhaps the Old World builders didn't need to change out the arc lamp electrodes, because that had a superior energy source. Which would support the accounts of adding the "dumbwaiter" pulley system afterwards.

Apparently, when the AC (alternating current) electrical grid was fully built-out in the United States and Europe, cities switched to the smaller and more numerous street light, and phased out the Moonlight Towers. Despite higher costs, and more on-going maintenance and construction, cities were convinced to abandon the efficient and low-cost Moonlight Towers, and began the process of converting the population to the more expensive AC (alternating current) systems. This change over from Old World to New World, insured that the population would have to pay monthly for their electricity consumption.

It was around the same time that all cities with highly practical and low maintenance electric street car systems, began to phase out the electric trams as they were purchased by b
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