The Lighthouse

Your Guide to the Iconic Legend

"Lighthouses have had a significant impact on civilization in a multitude of ways"

 
 

 

Overview of Lighthouses

Though it is probable that the lighthouse aided navigation for almost as long as people have sailed the sea, the golden age of the lighthouse came within only the last couple of hundred years. With technology advancing by leaps and bounds in the 19th and 20th centuries, ways of improving these lights of the coast (ways such as better, more easily replenished fuels and brilliant lenses) added tremendously to the mariner's ability to safely sail the margin between land and the open sea.

Impact of Lighthouses on Society

Lighthouses have had a significant impact on civilization in a multitude of ways, including

(A major list):

  • The importance of lighthouses throughout history and the roles that they've played
  • The influence lighthouses have had on human culture
  • The technological advances that brought the lighthouse into its golden age include (a sub list within the major list):
  • Incandescent oil vapor lamp
  • Argand lamp
  • Fresnel lens
  • Screw pile construction
  • Electricity

Benefits of Lighthouses

A few of the many benefits provided by lighthouses (a major list):

  • Guiding ships into port
  • Warning mariners of navigational hazards
  • Serving as identifying markers of a particular region

 

 

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