Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05
TITANIC nEnoRlAL LIohT HOUSE

by the sea breeZeS and needed the
frequent use of the bellows to keep II
alight. There were many complaints
the lanterns were subsequently re
moved, but coal or wood fires re
NAMED in use till 1922.
Candles were next thought of, but
these again had obvious disadvan-
tages, for the great heat generated In
the lantern melted the candles and
thus diminished the intensity Of the
light The wicks also required the
constant use of shutters, and this
again was a serious disadvantage.
The use Of oil was not universally
adopted until the middle of the eigh-
teenth century. while Don afterward
co~ntrivances were adopted for tncreas
ing the light by means Of reiectors
Gas was first used as an illuminaM
in the early part OF the nineteenth
century, but only for lighthouses on
piers and harbors near gas works,
and it was not until 1855 that gas
vas used at out Of the way light.
houses. Soon afterward electricity
and limeiight were introduced: and
these, gas and oil N now the prfnci.
pal i1luminants employed.
1t was toward the middle of the
eighteenth century that schemes for
distinguishing one light from another
were introduced, and the first device
of this kind was invented, strange as
1t. may seem, by a barber of Lynn
called Robert Hamblin. The method
by which lights are varied nowadays
consists of hiding the light shown for
a certain number of seconds. Thus
n lighthouse may show a single
flash every 10 seconds, another three
flashes in quick succession every 81
seconds, and yet another may show Q
light for 80 seconds and then be OBJ
scured for ten seconds and 30 on
These methods, combined with the EN-
ployment of white, red and greer
lights, provide many different varfe
ties of lights and thus form a read.
can of distinguishing n from tn.
other, as no two lights on Goa
are exactly the same.
Bell on the lncheape Rock.
The present Bell Rock lighthouse /
[ situated of Arbroath, and this is tn
place, it will be remembered, that ha
been immortalized in the poem Of 81
Ralph the Rover" where
| The good old abbot of Aberbrothock
+, Had placed that bell on the Inchcape roch
On a buoy. in the storm, it hoated an
swung.
And over the waves its warning rung.
The first time q lighthouse wa
> erected on an isolated rock was in tn
Ease Of the first Eddystone lighthous
completed by Winstanley In 169,
= where tallow candles were used as a
!. ilfuminant. The tower was polygons
+. In form, which the ornamentatio
above offered great resistance to tn
. wind. This lighthouse. however. stoo
TIL 1908, when 1t was knocked dow
I by the sea, and W~instanley himse
and all the occupants persisted. tn
: next Eddystone was completed !
1708 by Rudyard. and this was cor
: pletsly destroyed by fire in Decembe
17D5. It had been constructed
wood. and the next tower. of grant
. was erected by John Smeaton az
|. stcod from 1T68 TO 1881. In 18T
however. it was discovered that II
rock on which It stood was being n
! Asrmined by the action Of the wat
: and this ~necessitated the building
a new tower ON a netghboring roo
I with more secure foundations. Tn
tower was completed IN 1881, wh<
! n Old Smeaton lighthouse was I
moved 10 the Hoe at Plymouth. whel
q now Stands