The Cape Neddick Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in York, Maine. It was erected in 1887 and put into use in 1879. It is still in use today. The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... York is a town, important as a summer tourist destination, located in York County, Maine, at the southeast corner of the state and directly on the Atlantic Ocean. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

When Cape Neddick Lighthouse was first established, plans had been in the works to build a lighthouse on the site since 1837. The tower is lined with brick and sheathed with cast iron. It stands 41 feet (12.5 m) tall but the light is 88 feet (27 m) above sea level because of the additional height of the steep rocky island on which it is located. The stanchions of the walkway railing around the lantern room are decorated with 4 inch brass replicas of the light house itself, though decorations on such utilitarian buildings are rare. | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but can mean any of a group of iron-based alloys containing more than 2% carbon (alloys with less carbon are carbon steel by definition). ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of length. ... Utilitarianism is a suggested theoretical framework for morality, law and politics, based on quantitative maximisation of some definition of utility for society or humanity. ...

Location

The Cape Neddick Lighthouse stands on Nubble Island about 200 yards off Cape Neddick Point. The lighthouse is commonly known as Nubble Light or simply, The Nubble. Cape Neddick Point is at the north end of Long Beach in the village of York Beach. The lighthouse is inaccessible to the general public, but the nearby mainland is occupied by Sohier Park which offers a telescope with which to view the lighthouse and a gift shop with a "Nubble" theme. This article is about the unit of measure known as the yard. ... 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ...

Significance

Nubble Light is a famous American icon and a classic example of a lighthouse. The Voyager spacecraft, which carries photographs of Earth’s most prominent manmade structures and natural features, should fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials, includes a photo of Nubble Light with images of the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canyon. A NASA artists rendition of a Voyager spacecraft The Voyager 1 spacecraft is an 815-kilogram unmanned probe of the outer solar system and beyond, launched September 5, 1977, and currently operational. ... An Ariane 5 expendable launch vehicle lifts off with the Rosetta spacecraft on March 2, 2004. ... Location of the Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China (Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Pinyin: ; literally 10,000 Li¹ long wall) is a Chinese fortification built from 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Mongol... Grand Canyon from the Kaibab Trail. ...

Speculative History

Although the origin of the little lighthouse adornments is unknown, there are many other stories about The Nubble. Among them is the story of the keeper and his wife who, in 1912, decided to take advantage of the booming tourist business at the York beaches. They developed a lively business ferrying tourists across to the island and giving tours. The trade grew so lively that the light was neglected and the keeper fired. Another keeper lived on the island with his 19 pound cat who was an attraction in himself, especially when he reputedly swam across the channel to visit mainland friends. It isn’t always summer, though, and another story lends balance to lighthouse living. The Nubble is such a windy spot that in the winter, the wind chill dropped so low that the flow of lamp oil to the incandescent kerosene vapor lamp was impeded. The problem was solved in 1938 when the lamp was electrified. That same year, the keeper and his family also received indoor plumbing. The avoirdupois system is a system of weights defining terms such as pound and ounce. ... Incandescence is the release of electromagnetic radiation from a hot body due to its high temperature. ... Russian kerosene lamp Kerosene or paraffin oil (British English, not to be confused with the waxy solid also called paraffin) is a colorless flammable hydrocarbon liquid. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A domestic water system is a system within a building, generally a house or a business, that provides water, provides ways to use water, and provides means of removing waste water. ...