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Cape Henry Light Station - 1911

Fog Signal Equipment

automatic

 

6"

 

June, 1909

 

Lamp shop, Tompkinsville,

 

20 - 1/8" w x 23 1/4" long

 

not known

 

centrifugal

 

good

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Hornsby-Akroyd

 

DeLa Vergne Machine Co.

 

June, 1909

 

5' 6" x 8' 9"

 

15 HP

 

Kerosene

 

By heating igniter ball on floor.

 

Slow speed horizontal

 

Herron Bury Co., Erie, PA, June 1909

 

In same bed & geared with engine

 

Compressing horizontal double acting, driven by 1 cycle horizontal kerosene engine

Internal Combustion Signal