FOR THE BRETON COAST
Huge Beacon Light A masterpiece of the science of optics, created under the direction of the French Service lor Lighthouses and Beacons, and which lias attracted much attention at the Paris Exposition, is destined to guard one of the most dangerous parts of the Breton Coast— Creae’h d’Ausant. It will be the first sign of land to travellers approaching France by air. The light proper is 12 metres high and has a diameter of 54 metres. Weighing 354 tons, the apparatus rests on a base of metal floating in a bath of almost a ton of mercury. This liquid permits of the beacon being rotated at the speed of one complete turn every 40 seconds. The lantern has two stories, each equipped with a system of lenses.
in good weather lamps of three kilowatts will he used, but to pierce a fog there will be lamps of fifty kilowatts, using a continuous current.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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157FOR THE BRETON COAST Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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