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:

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Num of Vertical elements panel:

Fixed lens covered:

Pedestal:

Service Table:

Draft Tube description:

Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Big Bay Point Light Station

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Henry Lepaute.

1886

None.

3rd

3' 3.5"

Fixed white varied by a white flash every 20 seconds.

Flash panels revolve once in 80 seconds.

20 seconds.

Lens is fixed - 4 panels of 90 degrees each.

each panel subtends an arc of 46 degrees 40'

Clock work drives a horizontal spur gear which is attached to cast iron frame which supports the flash panels.

Central drum only.

Pedestal of cast iron bolted to the lantern floor.

None.

A damper flue of Russia iron leads from chimney of lamp up through lens & into lens protector & thence into ventilator ball at top of roof.

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