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During the centuries wood, candlelights, coal, oil, kerosene and electricity have been used to send out a beam that reached 50K as a minimum.
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in a lens house that rotates four times per minute, hence giving twelve flashes per minute. Based on
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The lens assembly at the Kullen lighthouse, the most powerful lighthouse in
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and delivered in the summer of 1900. It consists of three lenses of 2.58 m in
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