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Updated: June 8, 2025
Many ingenious lamps have been devised by Serrin, Dubosq, Siemens, Brockie, and others, some regulating the arc by clockwork and electro-magnetism, or by thermal and other effects of the current. They are chiefly used for lighting halls and railway stations, streets and open spaces, search-lights and lighthouses.
And, as the bobbing lanterns disappeared down a black side-canal, the ringing voice echoed still from out the darkness: "Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia!" Search-Lights "I should not so much mind if there should be no moon to-night," said May, dipping her hand over the side of the boat, to feel the cool, soft wash of the wave. "Nothing could be lovelier than this," Pauline assented.
The glare of the search-lights, through the mist and steam, was darkened momentarily by thick, greasy coils of smoke, shot through by violent flashes of light as explosions took place. Gabriel struggled to his feet, and peered about him, "Still alive!" said he. "And I must get back into the fight! That's all that matters, now the fight!" He knew not, yet, where he was; but this mattered nothing.
To the left, a bit farther out, were the waters in which the Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet were sunk, and even now, off the point, ten or twelve miles away, hung the smoke of sister ships. We drove past the big guns of the forts, past field-guns covering the shore, past masked batteries and search-lights.
Our men could not see the Spanish ships in the harbor, but could see only the narrow channel and the hills and forts above it. Our men watched carefully, to see that no Spanish ship came out. For the first few nights of the blockade a bright moon lighted up the channel, but after the moon failed, the place was wonderfully lighted by the great "search-lights" of our ships.
And they'll be lowering away the launch and no doubt be having a pleasant chat presently. Just as easy but look at 'em now again!" The search-lights were paralleling and intersecting, now revealing the perpendicular depths beside the vessel, and now flooding the sky.
From the line of defence, that included the first terrace of the Galland grounds as the angle of a redoubt, not a shot, not a sound; silence on the part of officers and men as profound as Mrs. Galland's slumber, while one of the Browns' search-lights, like some great witch's slow-turning eye in a narrow radius, covered the lower terraces and the road.
He laid the tress back upon the pillow, very gently, and, looking into the quiet eyes of the Sister, he answered: "Never but once." "Decus et Praesidium" The search-lights of that evening's talk had betrayed more to Pauline Beverly than the transitory trouble of her sister's mind.
Carefully and with painstaking accuracy he showed Gabriel how the plant now embraced more than two square miles of territory around the Falls, all guarded by tremendous barricades mounting machine-guns and search-lights.
The American force now included four first-class battleships, one second-class battleship and two cruisers. They were arranged in semi-circular formation facing the harbor, and at night powerful search-lights were kept directed upon the channel which Admiral Cervera must take in case of an attempt to escape.
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