Lighthouses have been used for ages as visual beacons to warn ships that they were near the coast. But did you know they also used mechanical foghorns as audial signals!🔊
If you want to know what the one from Inubosaki sounds like, play the video below (but maybe turn lower your speaker volume first...)
Download + build your own papercraft (colour-yourself!) Inubosaki lighthouse foghorn station (by Inubosaki Brunton Association):
http://www.inubo.net/brunton/ppcraft.html
(click the grey "ペーパークラフト ダウンロード" button below the picture on the Inubosaki Brunton Association website)
http://www.inubo.net/brunton/ppcraft.html
(click the grey "ペーパークラフト ダウンロード" button below the picture on the Inubosaki Brunton Association website)
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