When he looked at his watch, it was half-past three in the morning, and the fog-signal was still hooting into the night. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1951)
_ -- It appears from the evidence given in 1845, before the select committee raised by the English House of Commons, that the use of the locomotive-whistle as a fog-signal was first suggested by Mr.A. Gordon, C.E., who proposed to use air or steam for sounding it, and to place it in the focus of a reflector, or a group of reflectors, to concentrate its sounds into a powerful phonic beam. ❋ Various (N/A)
Works, under the guidance of Prof. Henry, at the instance and for the use of the United States Lighthouse Establishment, which also adopted it for use as a fog-signal. ❋ Various (N/A)
And it is conceded that Mr. C.L. Daboll, under the direction of Prof. Henry, and at the instance of the United States L.ghthouse Board, first practically used it as a fog-signal by erecting one for use at Beaver Tail ❋ Various (N/A)
He could not hear the lighthouse fog-signal at all, now, and the waves were much bigger under the boat. ❋ Edith Ballinger Price (1947)
Japanese auxiliary cruiser _Pelung Maru_, for example, being taken for a fog-signal, nevertheless an annoying surprise awaited the enemy elsewhere. ❋ Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1903)
The whistling of the fog-signal, which had now become almost constant, vanquished at length his inclination toward slumber. ❋ Arlo Bates (1884)
A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus. ❋ Grover Cleveland (1872)
From Soucelito either a stage or a private conveyance carries you to Olema, whence you should visit Point Reyes, one of the most rugged capes on the coast, where a light-house and fog-signal are placed to warn and guide mariners. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)
There were thirty days in which during a part, if not the whole, of the twenty-four hours we had out our fog-signal men; that is to say, an additional staff of 300 men, each with his flag and detonating signals, placed within sight, or within sound of one another, to assist the ordinary signalmen in the safe conduct of the traffic. ❋ Unknown (1859)
These are some of the physical reasons why guncotton might be regarded as a promising fog-signal. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
Proceeding along the sea margin at Flamboro 'Head, Mr. Edwards states that at a distance of 1.25 mile, with the 18-pounder previously used as a fog-signal hidden behind the cliffs, its report was quite unheard, while the 4-oz. rocket, rising to an elevation which brought it clearly into view, yielded a powerful sound in the face of an opposing wind. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
It is needless to add that at any point upon our coasts, or upon any other coast, where its establishment might be desirable, a fog-signal station might be extemporised without difficulty. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
Imagine the fog-signal flying, and see how instantaneously it would he apprehended that D.G. was asking the noble Lord at the head of the Government a question so intensely absurd as to show a state of obscurity in his own faculties, in comparison to which fog is a thin atmosphere! ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)
"Advantage was taken of the presence of the working party on the island to make the experiment, long since contemplated, of attaching a whistle as a fog-signal to the orifice of a subterranean passage opening out upon the ocean, through which the air is violently driven by the beating of the waves. ❋ Various (N/A)
