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Are Ancient Greek lighthouses different from Canadian lighthouses?
Yes, because they are in different climates and also because the Greek lighthouses happen to be built bigger. Further details: The lighthouses will still serve the same basic function, i.e. to warn ships of treacherous waters. However, the method of construction will have been quite different, and the technology of the light will differ greatly also.
What are some types of lighthouses?
Schoolhouse, skeletal
Who used to look after lighthouses?
lots of different types of people although they where mostly men because some women have children that really need them
Is a beacon a light house?
Lighthouses are beacons, but not all beacons are lighthouses. "Some definitions are not controversial. An aid to navigation is a structure placed on or near navigable water to provide visual guidance to mariners.A beacon is an aid to navigation that is fixed in place (that is, not floating). A lighted beacon or light beacon is a beacon displaying a light, while an unlit beacon is called a day beacon.Often, a lighted beacon is simply called a light." Not all day beacons are lighthouses, because beacons can be unlit. Lighthouses can be decommissioned, but if they were never lit, they were never real lighthouses.
What is lighthouses for?
I don't think the Romans had a word for "lighthouse" but I suppose the phrases "Turris Lucis" or "Domus Lucis" would suffice. The first means "Tower of Light" and the latter "House of Light."
Why were lighthouses so important?
Because they display a light for the guidance of mariners.
What was used for the light in the first lighthouses?
An oil lamp or a wood fire.
Where lighthouses useful in the past?
"Lighthouses are designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways."
Which state has 62 lighthouses?
Maine has 62 lighthouses, one which was commissioned by George Washington, the Portland Head Light Station started in 1787 and completed in 1791.
What is a light house made of?
wood lighthouses are made of brick and solar powered light bulbs w.b
How can you have different types of light?
Different wavelengths of light (photons) appear of different colour to our eyes.
Does Okoboji Iowa have an abandon light house?
Yes. Two lighthouses intact.
