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Encyclopedia > Fog horn

This page is about the navigational aid called foghorn, for the Ray Bradbury scence fiction novel, see The fog horn


A navigation aid for mariners. In foggy conditions, when visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured by the weather, fog horns provide an audible warning of rocks, headlands, or other dangers to shipping. The first automated steam-powered fog horn was invented by Robert Foulis of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The first model was installed on Partridge Island in 1859, replacing the less effective bell and cannon which had been formerly used as warnings to ships in fog.


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The Fog Horn - Ray Bradbury (2444 words)
It was a quarter past seven of a cold November evening, the heat on, the light switching it's tail in two hundred directions, the Fog Horn bumbling in the high throat of the tower.
And set up their Fog Horn and sound it and sound it out towards the place where you bury yourself in sleep and sea memories of a world where there were thousands like yourself, but now you're alone, all alone in a world that's not made for you, a world where you have to hide.
But that Fog Horn comes through a thousand miles of water, faint and familiar, and the furnace in your belly stokes up, and you begin to rise, slow, slow.
The Fog Horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (358 words)
The Fog Horn is a short story by Ray Bradbury and the first in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun.
The lighthouse's resonating fog horn attracts a sea monster who destroys the place.
The fog horn tricks the monster into thinking he has found another of his kind, one who acts as though the monster did not even exist.
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