AHC: Make Watkin's Tower survive till today

With a PoD of whenever make Watkin's Tower of London survive till today.

I introduce you to the top of the Eiffel Tower (early 1900’s)

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Since 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been used as a scientific laboratory and as an early meteorological station. It was later used for radio experiments and broadcasting. In 1903, Gustave Eiffel, fascinated by scientific experiments, was still searching for a way to save “his” Tower, whose concession from the City of Paris was to come to an end 6 years later. He suggested to Captain Gustave Ferrié, then responsible for studying the military applications of wireless transmission, that he use the Tower for his experiments. He financed this operation, which enabled transmission and reception over 400 km. The Department of Military Engineering authorised Captain Ferrié to install antennas on the Tower. He set himself up in a wooden shelter next to the Southern Pillar.

In 1909, the underground military radiotelegraphy station was set up. The strategic interest in the Tower had been demonstrated and the City of Paris renewed Gustave Eiffel’s concession on the 1st January 1910. In 1913, the Tower sent telegrams using electrical waves to as far as America and to ships making the crossing in a radius of 6,000 km.

Source : https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/eiffel-tower-and-science and https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/how-science-saved-eiffel-tower

POD : Sir Edward Watkin sells his tower as a scientific, industrial and engineering British marvel and keeps the octogonal design. The octogonal design is more steady and the scientific ideals would appeal to more sponsors, including the government, than leisure and pleasure. The name Empire Tower is given to the structure.


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In 1921, the British Government decides to site the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park, on the site of Edward Watkin's pleasure gardens (OTL). The British Empire Exhibition ran from 1924 to 1925, and while it failed to make a profit or reinforce conclusively the national attachment to the ideal of the British Empire, it did make Empire Tower a household name and an Imperial symbol.
 
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