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29-466: Francis Blackwood may refer to: Francis Price Blackwood (1809–1854), British naval officer who spent most of his time in colonial Australia Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (1916–1991), British peer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

58-500: A relay league . Systems of this kind have existed for centuries over much of the world. The ancient Greeks called them phryctoriae , while beacons figure on several occasions on the column of Trajan . In imperial China, sentinels on and near the Great Wall of China used a sophisticated system of daytime smoke and nighttime flame to send signals along long chains of beacon towers. Legend has it that King You of Zhou played

87-661: A chain of eight beacons staffed by so-called lampadóphoroi inform Clytemnestra in Argos , within a single night's time, that Troy has just fallen under her husband king Agamemnon's control, after a famous ten years siege . In J. R. R. Tolkien 's high fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings , a series of beacons alerts the entire realm of Gondor when the kingdom is under attack. These beacon posts were staffed by messengers who would carry word of their lighting to either Rohan or Belfalas . In Peter Jackson 's film adaptation of

116-576: A complex beacon network to warn against Moorish raiders and military campaigns. Due to the progressive advance of the borders throughout the process of the Reconquista, the entire Spanish geography is full of defensive lines of castles, towers and fortifications, visually connected to each other, which served as fortified beacons. Some examples are the Route of the Vinalopó castles or the distribution of

145-499: A data packet and this could be used by software to identify the beacon location. This is typically used by indoor navigation and positioning applications. Beaconing is the process that allows a network to self-repair network problems. The stations on the network notify the other stations on the ring when they are not receiving the transmissions. Beaconing is used in Token ring and FDDI networks. In Aeschylus ' tragedy Agamemnon ,

174-643: A geologist, and John MacGillivray , a zoologist ), the Fly departed from Falmouth, Cornwall in 1842, with the accompaniment of the cutter Bramble (under the command of Lieutenant Charles Yule). Having stopped in Hobart town between the months of August and October, it was not until December 1842 that the survey began, after the ships arrived in Sydney. Over the following three years, Fly traveled and charted from Sandy Cape to Whitsunday Island , and also sailed past

203-480: A promotion to the rank of captain . Three years later, Blackwood was selected to command the sloop HMS Fly . He was appointed with the purpose of partaking in the initial hydrographic survey commissioned by the admiralty, which involved making explorations into and charting the waters of the Australian north-east coast. Equipped with a wealth of costly instruments and housing two scientists ( Joseph Jukes ,

232-599: A range of other locations including both Swain Reefs and the Capricorn and Bunker Group and the passage between these two. Fly also mapped and marked the outer lines of the Great Barrier Reef . It was, in part, because of Blackwood and his comrades hydrographic and exploratory effort aboard the Fly that a beacon was erected on Raine Island in 1844 with the purpose of allowing surer and safer travel through

261-607: A trick multiple times in order to amuse his often melancholy concubine, ordering beacon towers lit to fool his vassals and soldiers. But when enemies, led by the Marquess of Shen really arrived at the wall, although the towers were lit, no defenders came, leading to King Yōu's death and the collapse of the Western Zhou dynasty. China's system of beacon towers was not extant prior to the Han dynasty . Thucydides wrote that during

290-426: A wrong position would be used to direct a ship against shoals or beaches , so that its cargo could be looted after the ship sank or ran aground. There are, however, no historically substantiated occurrences of such intentional shipwrecking. In wireless networks, a beacon is a type of frame which is sent by the access point (or WiFi router) to indicate that it is on. Bluetooth based beacons periodically send out

319-596: The Beacon journal. Beacons are sometimes used in retail to send digital coupons or invitations to customers passing by. An infrared beacon (IR beacon) transmits a modulated light beam in the infrared spectrum, which can be identified easily and positively. A line of sight clear of obstacles between the transmitter and the receiver is essential. IR beacons have a number of applications in robotics and in Combat Identification (CID). Infrared beacons are

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348-652: The Lord High Admiral . The money due for the maintenance of beacons was called Beaconagium and was levied by the sheriff of each county. In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires was at one time established to warn of incursions by the English. Hume and Eggerstone castles and Soltra Edge were part of this network. In Spain, the border of Granada in the territory of the Crown of Castile had

377-859: The Peloponnesian War , the Peloponnesians who were in Corcyra were informed by night-time beacon signals of the approach of sixty Athenian vessels from Lefkada . In the 10th century, during the Arab–Byzantine wars , the Byzantine Empire used a beacon system to transmit messages from the border with the Abbasid Caliphate , across Anatolia to the imperial palace in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople . It

406-619: The Great Barrier Reef and marking the best passage. It was during this time that Bramble surveyed the Endeavour Strait . Later, in late 1844, Blackwood and Fly took a short voyage to Surabaya, but returned in April 1845 to chart a shipping route between Bramble Cay and Endeavour Strait. After this, Fly and Blackwood surveyed and chartered several other areas. This included a length of 100 mi (160 km) of

435-864: The United States, a series of beacons were constructed across the country in the 1920s and 1930s to help guide pilots delivering air mail . They were placed about 25 miles apart from each other, and included large concrete arrows with accompanying lights to illuminate them. Handheld beacons are also employed in aircraft marshalling , and are used by the marshal to deliver instructions to the crew of aircraft as they move around an active airport, heliport or aircraft carrier. Historically, beacons were fires lit at well-known locations on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation at sea , or for signalling over land that enemy troops were approaching, in order to alert defenses. As signals, beacons are an ancient form of optical telegraph and were part of

464-700: The Vikings. In Wales , the Brecon Beacons were named for beacons used to warn of approaching English raiders. In England, the most famous examples are the beacons used in Elizabethan England to warn of the approaching Spanish Armada . Many hills in England were named Beacon Hill after such beacons. In England the authority to erect beacons originally lay with the King and later was delegated to

493-1034: The castles in Jaén. Infrared strobes and other infrared beacons have increasingly been used in modern combat when operating at night as they can only be seen through night vision goggles . As a result, they are often used to mark friendly positions as a form of IFF to prevent friendly fire and improve coordination. Soldiers will typically affix them to their helmets or other gear so they are easily visible to others using night vision including other infantry, ground vehicles, and aerial platforms (drones, helicopters, planes, etc.). Passive markers include IR patches, which reflect infrared light, and chemlights . The earliest such beacons were often IR chemlights taped to helmets. As time went on, more sophisticated options began to emerge with electronically powered infrared strobes with specific mounting solutions for attaching to helmets or load bearing equipment. These strobes may have settings which allow constant on or strobes of IR light, hence

522-592: The key infrastructure for the Universal Traffic Management System (UTMS) in Japan. They perform two-way communication with travelling vehicles based on highly directional infrared communication technology and have a vehicle detecting capability to provide more accurate traffic information. A sonar beacon is an underwater device which transmits sonic or ultrasonic signals for the purpose of providing bearing information. The most common type

551-448: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis_Blackwood&oldid=720254159 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Francis Price Blackwood Francis Price Blackwood (25 May 1809 – 22 March 1854)

580-507: The name. Advancements in near-peer technology, however, present risk since if friendly units can see the strobe with night vision so could enemies with night vision capabilities. As a result, some in the American military have stressed that efforts should be made to improve training regarding light discipline (IR and visible) and other means of reducing a unit's visible signature. Vehicular beacons are rotating or flashing lights affixed to

609-519: The novel , the beacons serve as a connection between the two realms of Rohan and Gondor, alerting one another directly when they require military aid, as opposed to relying on messengers as in the novel. The Beacon was an influential Caribbean magazine published in Trinidad in the 1930s. New Beacon Books was the first Caribbean publishing house in England, founded in London in 1966, was named after

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638-712: The south-east coast of New Guinea in the Gulf of Papua where he discovered the Fly River and named it after his ship. He also explored in the waters near Singapore during this time. It was after this call to Singapore that Fly returned to Sydney and then, with Blackwood aboard, sailed for England in December 1845. The town of Blackwood in Victoria was named after Captain Francis Price Blackwood. Gold

667-744: The status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon , or of pending weather as indicated on a weather beacon mounted at the top of a tall building or similar site. When used in such fashion, beacons can be considered a form of optical telegraphy . Beacons help guide navigators to their destinations. Types of navigational beacons include radar reflectors, radio beacons , sonic and visual signals. Visual beacons range from small, single-pile structures to large lighthouses or light stations and can be located on land or on water. Lighted beacons are called lights ; unlighted beacons are called daybeacons . Aerodrome beacons are used to indicate locations of airports and helipads. In

696-749: The top of a vehicle to attract the attention of surrounding vehicles and pedestrians. Emergency vehicles such as fire engines, ambulances, police cars, tow trucks, construction vehicles, and snow-removal vehicles carry beacon lights. The color of the lamps varies by jurisdiction; typical colors are blue and/or red for police, fire, and medical-emergency vehicles; amber for hazards (slow-moving vehicles, wide loads, tow trucks, security personnel, construction vehicles, etc.); green for volunteer firefighters or for medical personnel, and violet for funerary vehicles. Beacons may be constructed with halogen bulbs similar to those used in vehicle headlamps , xenon flashtubes , or LEDs . Incandescent and xenon light sources require

725-400: The vehicle's engine to continue running to ensure that the battery is not depleted when the lights are used for a prolonged period. The low power consumption of LEDs allows the vehicle's engine to remain turned off while the lights operate. Beacons and bonfires are also used to mark occasions and celebrate events. Beacons have also allegedly been abused by shipwreckers . An illicit fire at

754-470: Was a British naval officer who while posted at several different locations during his time in the Royal Navy , spent much of his time posted in colonial Australia and was an instrumental pioneer of regions near Australia's east coast and nearby islands. Blackwood was the second son of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood and his third wife, Harriet née Gore, Blackwood entered the navy at age twelve. He

783-550: Was commissioned 8 Aug 1828 and joined HMS  Ariadne under Captain Frederick Marryat . He then served on HMS  Alligator under Captain Charles Yorke . It was in 1833 that Blackwood was appointed to be in command of HMS Hyacinth , a ship which would take him to Australia on his first visit and in which he would travel to the north-east coast to gather hydrographic data. In 1838 Blackwood received

812-783: Was devised by Leo the Mathematician for Emperor Theophilos , but either abolished or radically curtailed by Theophilos' son and successor, Michael III . Beacons were later used in Greece as well, while the surviving parts of the beacon system in Anatolia seem to have been reactivated in the 12th century by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos . In Scandinavia many hill forts were part of beacon networks to warn against invading pillagers. In Finland, these beacons were called vainovalkeat , "persecution fires", or vartiotulet , "guard fires", and were used to warn Finn settlements of imminent raids by

841-725: Was discovered in Blackwood in 1854. A year after returning to England, Blackwood entered Jesus College, Cambridge , and, on 12 October 1848, Blackwood married Jemima Sarah Strode. On 22 March 1854, Blackwood died and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. He is remembered as an important contributor to both hydrographic and cartographic knowledge of a great many locations. Many of the sailing directions and his findings are still apparent on present day charts. Beacon Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information , such as

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