A few years after, the South Foreland and Dungeness lighthouses were provided with experimental lights.
Although lighthouses were the first places to which electrical illumination was applied, there are many other purposes for which that species of light is invaluable.
At night fresh stars come out along the coast, beneath the stars of heaven; for you can see the lamps of Ventimiglia and Mentone and Monaco, and, far away, the lighthouses upon the promontories of Antibes and the Estrelles.
There are no lighthouses to warn the mariner off; and if we were wrong in our reckoning, as we might very well be, it was possible we might stumble on the land sooner than we expected.
He found that she had left her cottage stronghold, and went on towards the lighthouses at the Beal.
We went together up over the cliffs, and to a place where they fall towards the sea, past the white, quaint-lanterned lighthouses of the South Foreland.
Many are killed every year, during the spring and autumn migrations, by flying against the great lighthouses along our coasts, the birds' highway of travel.
Travelling as they do, chiefly by night, they are killed in numbers against the lighthouses and electric light towers which especially fascinate these poor little victims.
It is this very fact that prevents rock lighthouses from seldom if ever serving as refuges for shipwrecked sailors.
The shore lighthouses with which they were better acquainted were illuminated by electricity or on the catoptric principle, wherein a large number of small Argand lamps, with reflectors, are grouped together.
When the lighthouse was built on the Chickens Rock, the men who were to live in it were transferred from two old lighthouses on the little islet called the Calf of Man, but their families were left in the disused lighthouses.
But, when we pick up the two lighthouses on Thatcher’s Island off Cape Ann they ought to lie ten miles abeam to the south.
What’s the good o’ all the lighthouses in the daytime?
Two lighthouses on the starboard beam,” he heard Alan exclaim suddenly.
Well, where the distances are not great and you have land marks or lighthouses or buoys to bring you up if you go wrong, sailors generally set a course by compass and allow nothing for the variation of the needle.
I knew the superintendent of lighthouses in this district, and I'd been an assistant keeper when I was younger.
His brusque gestures enlivened his speech, which penetrated one like a dagger, and he had bursts of thought, just as lighthouses throw out flashes of fire, great, genial lights that seemed to illuminate a whole world of ideas.
It was then a guild or brotherhood for the encouragement of the science and art of navigation, and was first empowered to build lighthouses and erect beacons by an Act passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
He must toss much in boats; he must often adventure much on horseback by dubious bridle-track through unfrequented wildernesses; he must sometimes plant his lighthouses in the very camp of wreckers.
Bell Rock was only one of twenty lighthouses Robert Stevenson helped to build, but it was by far the most difficult one .
The corporation of the Trinity House, who managed the lighthouseson the English coast, had let the right to build on the Eddystone, for a period of 99 years, to this Captain Lovet, who appointed Mr Rudyerd to do the work.
From that time forward it has been the custom to station not fewer than three men at a time on all out-lying lighthouses of the kingdom.
On the other hand, the letters which the lighthouses flashed could be readily changed and consequently were of very little assistance to Hun aviators.
A wrecked vessel was their legitimate prey, and the inhabitants of many coastal parts are known to have deeply resented the building of lighthouses where wrecks were frequent.
Standing on the Garrison at night, the lights of many lighthouses and lightships are visible.
Illustration: Lighthouses Cause the Death of Many Birds] During the spring it is not uncommon for strange waterfowl to be found helpless in the streets or fields of a region in which they are ordinarily unknown.
Illustration] As early as 1851 plans were made for the erection of a series of great offshore lighthouses to mark the dangerous Florida Reefs.
To tell the story of these lighthouses would be a major undertaking.
Twin lights were built and the Thomas family was paid $120 for the land on which the new lighthouses were constructed.
They might be dispersed through the islands in Bass Strait, and engaged in constructing the lighthouses which are so much wanted there.
There are lighthouses of prescribed candle power; automatic flashlights and whistling buoys; coastguard stations with carefully drilled crews; all regulated by law and matters of compulsion.
Even with all our up-to-date devices there are wrecks; and think of the ships that must have gone down before charts were available, lighthouses and bell buoys in vogue, wireless signals invented and the coast patrol in operation.
Some of the lighthouses and lightships on our coasts already have these submarine bells in addition to their lights, and in bad weather the bells send out their messages to warn ships of their proximity to a danger point.
England," and began a system of lights on the shores, of which the present chain of lighthouses and lightships is the outcome.
Lighthouses are necessary to guide the navy, but they also serve to guide the merchant marine and to aid industry.
Collection in other cases, as for the service oflighthouses to passing ships, is impossible.
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