Four of the moat important French lighthouses have already been provided with very powerful electric apparatus and with machinery for furnishing sound signals during stormy or misty weather. It is proposed to apply similar apparatus to the forty-two others. The total cost is estimated at 7,000.000 francs (1,400,OOOdols) for the electricity, and 1,000,000 francs (SOO.OOOdoU) for the fog horns. This expenditure is very light in view of the protection which it will afford to the immense capital represented by the 225,000 ships which annually visit the French harbors.—" Las Monde."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2404, 19 December 1881, Page 4
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90Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2404, 19 December 1881, Page 4
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