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To shine a light in the darkness

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 27 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A lot of history here - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/inishtearaght....
    This may help with dating -
    " ... An aerial hoist on the rock over the south landing was erected during 1906-07. Incandescent apparatus using vaporised paraffin burnt in a mantle replaced the multi-wick oil burner in March 1909.
    ... "
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Only mention of a hoist, so 1906-1907 looks good, thank you.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It looks like a fantastic but inhospitable place. In 2015 via William Glasgow Howe
    Click through to the large size to see the incline and platforms
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Inishtearaght (Inis Tiaracht) is one of the Blasket Islands and is probably the only Irish lighthouse that ordinary Joe Soaps like you and me will never get a glimpse of. This is a shame because it is one of the great lighthouses of the south-west of Ireland. But alas, it is a long way out, the lighthouse is on the far side of the island and no boats go out that far.
    It is of course, Ireland's most westerly lighthouse”

    irishlighthouses.blogspot.com/search?q=Inish+tearaght
  • Suck Diesel said:

    It’s remote!

Double diaphragm, double diaphragm

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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    We will award (at our own expense), half a dozen (virtual) sticky buns to the first person who tells us what exactly the Type ZW1 does and what is the application that the Commissioners of Irish Lights may have put it to?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “AI Overview
    The images depict a double diaphragm submarine emitter, labeled as Type ZW1, with a sound output of 250 watts. Figure 31 shows a diagram of the emitter, highlighting its internal components marked A and B. Figure 32 is a photograph of the emitter itself.”
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Wild guess, is this attached to a ship to identify itself to a submarine that it caries medical or other non hostile supplies?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Plausible, but I would need some evidence.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Of course, ‘submarine’ just means underwater, not necessarily a U-boat.
    I don’t think that Irish Lights has anything to do with U-boats so this device is used to emit a sound underwater, but purpose unknown

It's a long way from Mizen to Malin

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