Radio masts and towers Radio masts and towers Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest man-made structures. Masts are often named after the broadcasting organizations that originally built them or currently use them. In the case of a mast radiator or radiating tower, the whole mast or tower is itself the transmitting antenna. The terms "mast" and "tower" are often used interchangeably. However, in structural engineering terms, a tower is a self-supporting or cantilevered structure,
Jack Ketch took his place, but on 28 May, following his conviction for robbery, Rose himself was hanged at Tyburn and Ketch reinstated. Ketch died in November 1686. In 1836 a fictitious autobiography of Ketch, with illustrations from designs by Meadows entitled "The autobiography of Jack Ketch", was published. Another book entitled "Life of Jack Ketch with Cuts of his own Execution" was furnished by Tom Hood for the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth. Jack Ketch is one of the characters in Giovanni Piccini (d.1835) "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy" as dictated to John Payne Collier,