Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — A Light of 40,000,000 Candle Power. [ARTICLE]

A Light of 40,000,000 Candle Power.

The Lighthouse Board has received from France a pamphlet describing a new lighthouse to be erected off the coast of Brittany. The lighthouse will be built on Penmarch Point, and will be known as the Eckmukl Lighthouse. It will contain an electric light of 40,000,000 candle power, casting a beam which can be seen a distance in clear weather of sixty-three miles, and in foggy weather a distance of twenty-one miles. The highest order of light now in oper- • tition in the United States lighthouse service can only be seen twenty-one miles in clear weather. The light on the E«kmukl Lighthouse is of the “lightning flash” order. At the usual height sf ordinary lighthouse towers its light cannot be actually cast more than twentyfive miles before it strikes the horizon, but beyond that point it is reflected io the sky for thirty-eight miles.