Sentence examples for a large lighthouse from inspiring English sources

It would be almost impossible to make a large lighthouse lens of the usual solid glass-disk type because the thickness and weight would be prohibitive; the lighter Fresnel lens is constructed of elements that are separately ground and polished from suitable glass blanks and assembled to make up the complete lens.

A few kilometers east of the castle is Helliar Holm Island and its Lighthouse with a picturesque tower and a large lighthouse keepers quarters.

Again a collective hush fell over the boat as first the spare, white-washed lighthouse and then the inn, a large Victorian house behind the lighthouse, sprang into view atop a cliff.

Prendergast didn't paint in a large scale but his oil, "Lighthouse at St . Malo from 1907 done in a charming almost primitive style in which the conspicuous brush strokes of Impression are enlarged.

Beyond the lighthouse there is a large wooden deck that juts farther into the river on the foundation of the original 1838 lighthouse, which was replaced by the current one in 1869.

A large state-run lot near the lighthouse provides overflow parking.

The Islanders' owner, Charles Wang, is locked in a longstanding battle with local governments over his plans to overhaul the Coliseum as part of a large real estate development called the Lighthouse Project.

From his Image Fulgurator which looks like a gun and inserts hidden messages into people's photographs without their knowledge, to his collaborative project which put a large emoticon on top of a lighthouse in Lindau, Germany which displayed the collective emotions of passersby.

In 1777 William Hutchinson of Liverpool, England, produced the first practical mirrors for lighthouses, consisting of a large number of small facets of silvered glass set in a plaster cast molded to a paraboloid form.

Long a collector of pocket knives, soon he was whittling away at a large hunk of wood he found near the lighthouse.

On a large scale, Fresnel lenses have been used in lighthouses, floodlights, and traffic signals, and as cylindrical ship's lanterns.