posted 03-31-2001 11:11 PM            

The Pelican Bay site lists the date for Sandy Hook as 1794. The correct date is of course 1764. And yes I'm sure it says 1794, not 1764.

Nobody's perfect. I sent an email on to them about their small error.

Dennis

posted 03-31-2001 11:43 PM            

That’s two wrong so far for the Pelican Bay site.

Maybe the trivia here is which trivia is correct!

I think I may spotted at least one other trivia listed on that site that is in error, but I will check my facts.... let's see if someone else can figure out which one it might be.....

posted 04-01-2001 11:56 AM            

I'll say this for them- they responded quickly to my message and agreed it was in error and will fix it.

They did state what you said- they got it from a source and will in turn tell them they have it wrong. In the case of the date i think someone just turned the 6 upside down and no one noticed.

It's a little harder to lose an elevator.

On that subject i've been told, but cannot confirm this, that the elevator in Sullivans Island (which is in Charleston) has never worked properly. It cannot be used to take anything up, only down. apparently it cannot hold anything more than it's empty weight for the trip up.

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm not getting in any elevator that only works one way.

Anybody out there who can confirm this bit of information?

I'm going to go back and see if i can figure out the other possible mistake you found.

Dennis

posted 04-01-2001 04:00 PM            

He also has already corrected the wording of the other trivia that was not correct as it appeared before. It was that the Statue of Liberty was the first lighthouse to use electricity. It now is correct as it states the first American lighthouse to use electricity. The following are two links and quotes from them showing that South Foreland first used it in 1858 some 8 years before the Statue of Liberty. In fact apparently the US Lighthouse Board used information that was gathered from South Foreland to establish their efforts in New York.

http://hbci.com/~wenonah/history/edpart2.htm

quote:

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Under the supervision of Faraday himself, Alliance dynamos were installed in two English lighthouses. The electric arc searchlight first cast a beam out over the sea from South Foreland lighthouse, December 8, 1858. Some three and a half years later the second light was in operation in Dungeness. Unforeseen flaws in the machine's design caused frequent accidents to machine tenders and to the equipment itself, and the world's enjoyment of electricity as a means of illumination was postponed several years.

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http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_LHbib.html

quote:

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"Report upon Experiments Made at the South Foreland, Near Dover, England, to Determine the Comparative Power of Oil, Gas, and Electricity as Light-House Illuminants. By French E. Chadwick." Appendix 1 to the 1885 Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board. Washington: GPO, 1885, pp.117-158 with 7 plates.

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posted 04-01-2001 04:53 PM            

That's one of the great things about the forums. We can correct each other and no one takes it wrong. It looks like tthe webmaster at Pelican Bay fits the same mold.

I was on the wrong track in my search for the mistake.