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Illumination Home Page - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V

THE HISTORY OF LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION

In The Beginning

Saint Agnes Brazier 1680
  • Open Wood or Coal Fires
  • Braziers •Candles
  • Open Lanterns
  • Flat Plate Reflectors
  • Vipefires

 


Bitry's Cone
Eddystone Candelabra

English Brazier
(c)Egbert Koch 2002
Vipefire

 

Early American Illumination

  • Candles 1716 - 1720

  • Common Wick Channel Lamp 1720 - 1760

  • Pan Lamp 1760 - 1855

  • Bucket Lamp 1760 - 1850

  • Argand Lamp 1810 - 1910

  • Winslow Lewis Reflectors - Lamps - Lens

  • 1812 - 1855

 

Wick Channel Lamp
(c)Shore Village Museum 2002
Pan Lamp

Bucket Lamp

 

Argand's Lamp

 

Winslow Lewis Designs

  • Nine-Inch Reflector with Lamp with Lens

  • Ten to Twenty-one Inch Reflectors without Lens

  • Birdcage Lantern

 


Winslow Lewis Nine-Inch Reflector with Lamp and Lens

 


Winslow Lewis Reflector - Lamp

Winslow Lewis Chandelier

 


Winslow Lewis Birdcage Lantern
Selkirk, New York
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