Illuminating Apparatus

Kind of Apparatus:

Intensity in Candles:

Name of Maker:

Year Made:

Marks and Number:

Order of Apparatus:

Inside Diameter:

Light Characteristic:

Time of revolution:

Flash interval:

Duration of flash:

Arc of each fixed part:

Number of panels:

Number of flash panels:

Arc of each:

Number of elements in
central drum:

Number of prisms above
central drum:

Number of prisms below
central drum:

Does Apparatus revolve?:

Is there a Revolving Belt:

Revolving panels:

How is flash produced:

Num of Vertical elements panel:

Fixed lens covered:

Pedestal:

Service Table:

Draft Tube description:

Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Assateague Light Station

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Barbier & Fenestre

1866

Barbier & Fenestre, Paris 1866

1st

6' 1/2"

Fixed white with a fixed red sector btwn NNE 1/2 E & NE x E 7/8 E

Fixed white 225 degrees, metal reflector 45 degrees, blank 45 degrees metal reflector 45 degrees. Blank sector lies btwn bearings SE x E 1/2 E & S x E 1/2 E (magnetic)

8 (1 is blank & panel on each side filled with silver plated reflector about 3' 3" x 3' 7".

none

cast iron, diameter of shaft about 13 3/8"

common painted wooden table

Brass 5", supported by 4-arm brass casting attached to upper ring of lens. To this casing is attached the "connecting tube" & to connecting tube is attached the damper tube.

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