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I REGRET to have to confess ignorance about the two lighthouses in Dublin Bay. It would be of interest to know whether smoke from a passing steamer affecting the beam of light causes the ‘guns’ to act. I am well aware that engineers have often discussed the proper use of the word ‘automatic.’ Automatic telephony, for example, is not automatic in the strict sense of the term. It would take too long to discuss this fully, but personally I object to ‘semi-automatic.’
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Operation of Fog-Signals from a Distance. Nature 118, 265 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118265c0
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