2007-02-13 03:57:32 · 8 answers · asked by The Maestro 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I'm aware that lighthouses go back to ancient times. But I'm referring to the more common idea of a lighthouse. The kind you picture along the cost of the Carolinas, Maine, or parts of Europe.
2007-02-13 04:09:55 · update #1
Well, since lighthouses have been around for at least 2200 years (the lighthouse of Alexandria was built in the 3rd Century B.C.) and are still in use, and since clipper ships were in their heyday in the latter half of the 19th Century, then yes, lighthouses were in use when clipper ships were still sailing.
2007-02-13 04:10:16 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The electric light lighthouses had not been invented at the time of the clipper ships, but the classic lighthouse outline has been the same for hundreds of years.
Many of the landmark lighthouses were the same ones that used to use oil lamp lights. Some of them have been converted and are still in use. I believe many of the electric ones had their own generator and an oil lantern as an emergency back-up as well.
I remember some old movies where they used the light in the lighthouse being blown out in a storm as a dramatic moment. A ship was headed towards the rocks and so the brave lighthouse men had to climb the storm wracked stairs and re-lite it in the storm.
2007-02-13 05:22:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lighthouses go back to ancient times. The most famous being the one located in Alexandria, Egypt.
2007-02-13 04:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly they were.
The Scottish civil engineer Robert Stevenson designed and helped construct fifteen modern-type lighthouses around the coast of Scotland from 1815 to 1835 approximately.
Two of the most famous clipper ships, "Cuttty Sark" and "Thermopylae", were only launched about 1870.
2007-02-14 05:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there were many lighthouses in use when clipper ships were the fast method of international travel.
2007-02-13 04:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they were in use from ancient egyptiantimes and stillused today only more sloer powered but moonspinners as there were called used to draw ships onto rocks and reefs by putting up lights or lighting beacons to mimic the lighthouse
2007-02-13 05:10:05 · answer #6 · answered by Carl G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course. They were quite common in most of the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the time.
2007-02-13 04:33:01 · answer #7 · answered by Cristian Mocanu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-02-13 04:04:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋