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

Passage Island Light Station-1910

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Barbier & Benard

1896

BB/107

4th

White flash every 10 seconds.

Once every minute

10 seconds

No part fixed

60 degrees each

Each is made up of 1 central bulls-eye surrounded by 2 concentric rings.

yes

Clock work drives a vertical shaft with a horizontal gear wheel, that works into cogs at base of lens.

Cast iron & cylindrical. Pedestal contains the scoket in which the balls revolve

Cast iron fastened to pedestal & supported at 1 end by 2 rods fastened to floor of lantern.

None.

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