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are a navigation aid for mariners. In conditions, when visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured by the weather, provide an audible warning of rocks, headlands, or other dangers to shipping. The first automated steam-powered was invented by Robert Foulis, a Scotsman who emigrated to 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 .
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as in the following text, courtesy of New Brunswick Community College Homepage.
The Fog Alarm
Despite the light towers, fog continued to cause nautical disasters. Some engineers attempted to solve the problem with various fog alarms. In 1801, a minute gun was installed to help ship navigators, and was replaced by a 1000 lb. bell in 1831. Neither method proved a success. Over a one hundred year period, close to two dozen ships had been lost off the shores of Partridge Island.
World's First Steam Fog Alarm
In 1852, Robert Foulis patented the Illuminating Gas Apparatus, and the next year he, along with his gas maker William Murdoch, were working to convert the light from oil-burning to gas-burning. As his work progressed, he was inspired to construct a fog alarm using a steam whistle. He submitted his plans to the Lighthouse Commissioners in 1858 and didn't get a response. The next thing he knew, a local engineer named T. T. Vernon Smith built the the world's first steam operated fog alarm, based on Foulis' plans. While Foulis sought legal action, the alarm was being praised by local pilots and skippers.
"...on the whole coast of America there is not another alarm equal to the one spoken of ... in making the harbour on Tuesday, a dense fog prevailing at the time ... eight miles below the island we heard the Whistle, and without the least difficulty entered the harbour." -- Captain Winchester of the steamer Eastern City, 1860.
Foulis received his deserved recognition in 1864.
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