- Lighthouse - Wikipedia
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways
- Lighthouse | Definition, History, Equipment, Facts | Britannica
Lighthouse, structure, usually with a tower, built onshore or on the seabed to serve as an aid to maritime coastal navigation, warning mariners of hazards, establishing their position, and guiding them to their destinations
- Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers
Lighthouse has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more You can run Lighthouse against any web page, public or requiring authentication You can run Lighthouse as part of PageSpeed Insights, in Chrome DevTools, from the command line, or as a Node module
- Lighthouse Friends
This site includes photographs, directions, histories, and GPS coordinates garnered while personally visiting every lighthouse in the United States and nearly every lighthouse in Canada
- Lighthouse Facts | The Lighthouse Preservation Society
Lighthouses are built from wood, stone, brick, reinforced concrete, iron, steel, or aluminum They are designed to withstand local environmental conditions For example, tall skeletal lighthouses located in the Caribbean offer less surface area to hurricane-force winds and waves
- US-Lighthouses. com - The best source for lighthouse info
What is a lighthouse? A lighthouse is loosely defined as a tower or other structure used to display a light for the guidance of ships to either avoid a dangerous area (shoals, etc ) or to identify a safe harbor
- History of lighthouses - Wikipedia
According to Homeric legend, Palamedes of Nafplio invented the first lighthouse, although they are certainly attested with the Lighthouse of Alexandria (designed and constructed by Sostratus of Cnidus) and the Colossus of Rhodes
- Lighthouse - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The lighthouse protects ships from crashing into shore, by sending the light out towards the sea When sailors see the light, they know to avoid hitting the shore
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