It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

That same year, a lighthouse was erected under the orders of President Porfirio Díaz.

This port was constructed in a semicircle with two moles and a lighthouse at its mouth.

A much more valuable and practical result of Brewster's optical researches was the improvement of the British lighthouse system.

The lighthouse was completed in the 3rd century BC.

Kerosene started replacing lard oil in the 1870s and the lighthouse service was finally converted by the late 1880s.

In early lighthouses, the light source was a kerosene lamp or, earlier, an animal or vegetable oil Argand lamp, and the lenses rotated by a weight driven clockwork assembly wound by lighthouse keepers, sometimes as often as every two hours.

Although the Fresnel lens was invented in 1822, it was not used in the U. S. until the 1850s due to the parsimonious administrator of the United States lighthouse establishment, Stephen Pleasonton.

Recently, a lighthouse played a pivotal role in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and was featured in the final shot of the film.

* The privately owned Isle La Motte lighthouse on the northern end of the island was originally red, but it faded to pink over time.

Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects ; in the late 1860s, he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said.

This caused so many problems that the lighthouse was demolished, but was successfully rebuilt in 1751 by order of Thomas Fonnereau and remains almost unchanged today.

Once a flourishing small community with a lighthouse, the island was destroyed by coastal erosion and now exists as a shoal that is exposed at low tide.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

It was too dangerous to return to North Sunderland so they rowed to the lighthouse to take shelter.

The weather deteriorated to the extent that everyone was obliged to remain at the lighthouse for three days before returning to shore.

A lighthouse was constructed in 1802 and commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, warning of dangerous shoals and shallows in the area.

The United States Coast Guard built a three-story home at the lighthouse tower in 1871, but it was destroyed by fire on March 15, 1976.

The lighthouse was automated in 1978, and continues to operate as a navigational aid to the nearby Intracoastal Waterway.

According to Smithsonian magazine, the first Fresnel lens was used in 1823 in the Cordouan lighthouse at the mouth of the Gironde estuary ; its light could be seen from more than out.

At the harbour entrance, on Sambro Island, a historic building beside the oldest lighthouse in North America was badly damaged and remains unrepaired in 2007.

During World War II, Canadian troops seized the lighthouse swiftly, however, it was badly damaged and had to be restored after the end of the war.

This structure was badly damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami but can still be seen in the intertidal zone near the British lighthouse.

This structure was badly damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami but can still be seen in the intertidal zone near the British lighthouse.

The two earthquakes in 1303 and 1323 damaged the lighthouse to the extent that the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta reported no longer being able to enter the ruin.

Stevenson did not want to use black powder as it might have damaged the rock on which the lighthouse was to stand.

The lighthouse was damaged, including the loss of its light, but its keepers remained uninjured.

This lighthouse was in operation until 1924 when it was abandoned after it was extensively damaged in 1920 by a storm.

The lighthouse was heavily damaged during World War II by Soviet aviation and German retreating forces.

Indira Point subsided 4. 25 m in the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the lighthouse there was damaged.

The old wooden lighthouse became the keeper ’ s dwelling and remained near to the current lighthouse until it was damaged by Hurricane Edna in 1954 and was removed.

The lighthouse itself was only slightly damaged, its lens only being chipped ; the same lens is still used today.

Indira Point ( 6 ° 45 ’ 10 ″ N and 93 ° 49 ’ 36 ″ E ), the southernmost point of the Great Nicobar Island and India itself, subsided 4. 25 m in the tsunami and the lighthouse there was damaged.

Indira Point subsided 4. 25 m in the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the lighthouse there was damaged.

The lighthouse was damaged by Confederate forces during the American Civil War, but was repaired by Union forces in 1863, who depended on the light for navigation.

Although the wildlife population and the lighthouse were not significantly damaged, the keeper's house was destroyed.

In 1960, Hurricane Donna damaged this lighthouse, with the result that a new lighthouse replaced it in 1962.

A fire heavily damaged the interior of the lighthouse on 23 December 1960, leading to automation of the light in 1961.

The small lighthouse on the south end at Sròn na Lice is regularly damaged by the huge seas which break right over the rock during Atlantic storms.

In 1287, an earthquake devastated the town and caused widespread damage to the fortifications, destroying the Pigeon Tower, the Pier Tower and the lighthouse.

On April 1, 1946, during the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake, the lighthouse was struck by a tsunami.

Following the earthquake, which was centered 5 km off the coast of Ponta da Ribeirinha, the lighthouse was left in ruins.

* Lighthouse of Ribeirinha (), a third-order coastal lighthouse, destroyed and now in ruins after the 1980 Azores Islands earthquake ;

The tsunami has generated by the Indian Ocean earthquake on 2004 inundated much of its area that partly damaging the lighthouse subsided 4. 25 m in the tsunami.