South Foreland Lighthouse

South Foreland Lighthouse is a Victorian reference point on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England, used to alert boats moving nearer the contiguous Goodwin Sands. It exited organization in 1988 and is at this moment controlled by the National Trust. Another signal had just stayed on the site since no under 1730 and in the midst of a vast part of this time it was watched out for by the Knott gathering of reference point specialists.

South Foreland was the primary reference point to use an electric light. This was in 1859. By 1875 the signal was using carbon roundabout section lights controlled by a steam-driven magneto.

It was used by Guglielmo Marconi in the midst of his work on radio waves, getting the essential ship-to-shore message from the East Goodwin lightship. The structure was used over the going with winter to dismiss a couple of wrecks. In 1899, the essential overall transmission was made between the reference point and Wimereux in France.