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South Foreland Lighthouse is a Victorian lighthouse on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England, used to warn ships approaching the nearby Goodwin Sands. It went out of service in 1988 and is currently owned by the National Trust. Another lighthouse had previously stood on the site since at least 1730 and during most of this time it was manned by the Knott family (lighthouse keepers). == Firsts == South Foreland was the first lighthouse to use an electric light. This was in 1858. By 1875 the lighthouse was using carbon arc lamps powered by a steam-driven magneto. It was used by Guglielmo Marconi during his work on radio waves, receiving the first ship-to-shore message from the East Goodwin lightship, the first ship-to-shore distress message (when a steamship ran into the same lightship, and the lighthouse relayed the message up the coast to the Walmer lifeboat), and the first international transmission (from Wimereux, France, in 1899). File:South Foreland Lighthouse back.jpg |The lighthouse from the back File:Approaching South Foreland Lighthouse from Dover.jpg |Approaching the lighthouse from the pathway from Devon Image:Douvres (6).JPG |South Foreland Lighthouse at a distance from the English Channel 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Foreland Lighthouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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