CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY
1920
DELAWARE BREAKWATER LIGHT
At the Delaware Breakwater
is a lighthouse watched by two keepers, one on duty for 10
days, and one on shore leave
for 10 days, out of thirty.
At sundown the starting of
the revolving red and white light begins with a gill of alcohol
being held over a cup of
oil and heated , then the oil runs through tubes to a large
heated
asbestos mantle entered in
the powerful lens which is then lighted, burns for the night, using
about
a gallon of oil. A
mechanism in the center of the lighthouse revolves the light,
acting much like a
clock with a long pendulum
on which is a 75 pound weight, revolving the light throwing red
and
white light for miles out.
Abstract: Sunday,
November 24, 1920, Baltimore Sun by Harrison H, March 22,
2019.
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