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US$14.1 million (2019) Number of employees. 1,753 [1] Website. shift4 .com. Shift4 is an American payment processing company publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange and based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] The company, founded in 1999 by the then 16-year-old Jared Isaacman, processes payments for over 200,000 businesses in the ...
History of lighthouses. The Tower of Hercules, a lighthouse of Roman origin at A Coruña in northwest Spain, modelled on the Pharos of Alexandria. The History of Lighthouses refers to the development of the use of towers, buildings, or other types of structure, as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Svinøy Lighthouse (Norwegian: Svinøy fyrstasjon) is a fully automated lighthouse situated on the island of Svinøy in the sea off the Stad peninsula. It is located in the municipality of Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, on the western coast of Norway. The island lies within sight of the mainland and it is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the ...
History The earlier lighthouses. On 24 December 1664, Sir William Batten, Surveyor of H.M. Navy, was granted a patent allowing him to set up lighthouses in Harwich. The lights were promptly built and were first lit the following year: the High Light, lit by a coal-fired hearth, was installed on top of the old Town Gate; whilst the Low Light, which stood some 200 yards (180 m) away on the ...
Ship John Shoal Light. / 39.30528°N 75.37667°W / 39.30528; -75.37667. The Ship John Shoal Light marks the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, near the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Its cast iron superstructure was exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia ...
Added to NRHP. June 15, 1987. Minot's Ledge Light, officially Minots Ledge Light, is a lighthouse on Minots Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, Massachusetts, to the southeast of Boston Harbor .The current lighthouse is the second on the site, the first having been washed away in a storm after only a few months of use.
June 4, 1973. Designated VLR. December 16, 1980 [2] Assateague Light is the 142-foot-tall (43 m) lighthouse located on the southern end of Assateague Island off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, United States. The lighthouse is located within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and can be accessed by road from Chincoteague Island ...
June 23, 1976. Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse —the first one built on the U.S. West Coast —located on Alcatraz Island in California 's San Francisco Bay. [4] It is located at the southern end of the island near the entrance to the prison. [5] The first light house on the island was completed in 1854, and served the bay during ...