Lighthouse
['laɪthaʊs]
Definition
(n.) A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Typist: Melville
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will assail you, but they will disperse before prosperity and happiness. To see a lighthouse from a placid sea, denotes calm joys and congenial friends.
Editor: Tracy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- The first cast-iron lighthouse was put up at Point Morant, Jamaica, in 1842. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In a lighthouse. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My arrival was like the newly discovered lamp of a lighthouse to sailors, who are weathering some dangerous point. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In his field as inventor and man of science he stands as clear-cut and secure as the lighthouse on a rock, and as indifferent to the tumult around. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The intensity of the light was ascertained to be equal to that of 301,400 mould candles of six to the pound, whilst the light of the Breakwater Lighthouse was equal to only 150 candles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The wind sounds up here,' quoth Eugene, stirring the fire, 'as if we were keeping a lighthouse. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On June 6, 1862, this light was also introduced into the lighthouse at Dungeness, England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On the evening of December 8, 1858, the first practical electric light, the work of Faraday and Holmes, flashed over the troubled sea from the South Foreland Lighthouse. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He took out United States patent March 18, 1813, and in 1817 contracted with the United States to supply for a year the Beaver Tail Lighthouse. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Trinity House installed a station at the East Goodwin Lighthouse, which communicated with shore and proved of the greatest value in preventing shipwrecks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Although the statue is larger than any in the world of such composite construction, its success as a lighthouse is not as notable as many farther seaward. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1817 his process was applied to Beaver Tail Lighthouse on the Atlantic coast--the first use of illuminating gas in lighthouses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Lighthouses are also distinguished from those of preceding centuries by the substitution of iron and cast steel for masonry. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The same light was introduced in French lighthouses in December, 1863, and also in the work on the docks of Cherbourg. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The _lighthouses_ of the century, in masonry, do not greatly excel in general principles those of preceding ones, as at Eddystone, designed by Smeaton. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1817 his process was applied to Beaver Tail Lighthouse on the Atlantic coast--the first use of illuminating gas in lighthouses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Nicholas