Lighthouse

(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.

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• The first cast-iron lighthouse was put up at Point Morant, Jamaica, in 1842. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In a lighthouse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My arrival was like the newly discovered lamp of a lighthouse to sailors, who are weathering some dangerous point. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The wind sounds up here,' quoth Eugene, stirring the fire, 'as if we were keeping a lighthouse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On June 6, 1862, this light was also introduced into the lighthouse at Dungeness, England. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Trinity House installed a station at the East Goodwin Lighthouse, which communicated with shore and proved of the greatest value in preventing shipwrecks. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1817 his process was applied to Beaver Tail Lighthouse on the Atlantic coast--the first use of illuminating gas in lighthouses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Lighthouses are also distinguished from those of preceding centuries by the substitution of iron and cast steel for masonry. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The same light was introduced in French lighthouses in December, 1863, and also in the work on the docks of Cherbourg. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The _lighthouses_ of the century, in masonry, do not greatly excel in general principles those of preceding ones, as at Eddystone, designed by Smeaton. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1817 his process was applied to Beaver Tail Lighthouse on the Atlantic coast--the first use of illuminating gas in lighthouses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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