DEEP-SEA LIGHTHOUSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 9 February 1884, Page 4

DEEP-SEA LIGHTHOUSES.

A leading English journal endorses a plan recently formed by an English engineer for founding " deep-sea lighthouses" as a " hopeful scheme which il carried out will fulfil a want that has long been acknowledged," "As explained to the London Society of Engineers, this plan purposed the con-i si ruction of a hollow cylinder of; riveted iron work, 2GO feet long, to consist of two sections—the unper part to be 140 feet long, destined to show its head above tho waves, and fitted as an ordinary lighthouse, while the remaining portion of (he tube is to be ballasted so as to sink below the water line and counteract the force of the wind and waves on the exposed part. The whole apparatus is to bo anchored in deep water by heavy steel cables. The inventor claims that it would be easy to tow the Structure to the spot selected by it, and then by admitting water to the lower section, it would assume an upright position, and ride the waves like a bottle, The practical use which this is intended to serve is to give notice of approaching storms by telegraphic communication with the shore. It is believed to bo practical to found a floating telegraphic station, say 1000 miles from the coast of England, in mid-ocean, from which comings of approaching storms could be given at least twenty-four hours betore their arrival.