ENPages That Mention Funk’s hydraulic float lamp
Vol 601Topographical survey and lens description 1883
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Cape Disappointment Light Station, W.T. 1. Lens made Louis Soulter & Co. Paris, 1854. “by order of Secretary of Treasury and the Light-House Board, W.A. Bartlett, Lieut, U.S.N., Special ??? .” First order catadioptric Fresnal lens. Fixed white. Range, E.N.E. by E’d. S’d & W’d to N.W. by W. ½ W. 8 panels in lens apparatus. 12 prisms above dioptric drum. 6 “ below “ “
2. Funk’s hydraulic float lamp, 4 wick. Height from base to top of burner 35.11 inches. 3. Distance between centers of the three pillars on which the lamp rests, 15.56 inches. 4. Height from focal plane of lens to top of ring at upper part of lens, 62.46 inches. 5. Diameter of this ring; inside, 23.5 inches, outside, 26.58 inches.
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Cape Flattery Light Station, W.J. 1. Lens made by Louis Soulter & Co. Paris, 1854. First order catadioptric Fresnal lens. Fixed white. Range, S.E. by S ¾ S. by S’d, Wd. & N’d to E.N.E. 8 panels in lens apparatus. 12 prisms above dioptric drum 6 “ below “ “ 2. Funk’s hydraulic float lamp, 4 wick. Height from base to top of burner, 34.80 inches. 3. Distance between centers of the three pillars on which lamp rests (15.54, 15.54, 15.24) inches. 4. Height from focal plane of lens to top of ring at upper part of lens, 62.90 inches. 5. Diameter of this ring; inside, 23.51 inches, outside, 27.64 inches.
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Cape Foulweather Light Station, Oreg. 1. Lens made by Barbier & Fenestre. First order catadioptric Fresnal lens. Fixed white. Range, S.E. by E. by S’d & W’d to N.W. ½ W. 8 panels in lens apparatus. 18 prisms above diaptric drum. 8 “ below “ “ . 2. Funk’s hydraulic float lamp, 4 wick. Height from base to top of burner 33.46 inches. 3. Distance between centers of the three pillars on which the lamp rests, 16.00 inches. 4. Height from focal plane of lens ot top of ring at upper part of lens 63.18 inches. 5. Diameter of this ring, inside, 22.10 inches- outside, 26.79 inches. “The ring at upper part of lens is quite large and inside is a smaller ring on crown-piece to which the supply reservoir is secured.”