Panama

AGA verlichting langs het Panamá kanaal

  Zijn studies voltooide, Dalen gevormdheid het bedrijf Dalen & Celsing Samen met zijn rijke medestudent Henry Celsing. At the same time, he worked for Svenska Carbid & Acetylen (later to become AGA). Op de Sametime, werkte hij voor de Zweedse Carbide & Acetyleen (later naar AGA Word). The partners invented the Brilliant gasworks which they sold to the town of Ängelholm. De partners de uitvinder van de Brilliant gasfabriek waarover niet soldaat naar de stad Ängelholm. This work involved a new way of producing and using acetylene gas, mainly for lighting. Dit gebeurde op een nieuwe manier van produceren en gebruiken acetyleengas, vooral voor verlichting. It was also Dalén who introduced welding using acetylene gas in Sweden in 1902. Het was ook “Dalen WHO ingevoerd lassen met acetyleen gas in Zweden 1902

 AGA’s intermittent light regulator reduced fuel consumption by 90 percent, and the sun valve cut consumption by another 4 percent. This meant lighthouses could be operated at a low cost and left unattended for long periods of time. In 1912, AGA won a contract to build a lighthouse system for the Panama Canal and Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his inventions in lighthouse technology.

1912 Panama

AGA belysningens Panama kanalen

The Panama Canal – satellite image

AGA-boj i Panamakanalen. 1932

Gereedschapskist voor onderhoud vuurtorens van AGA

Gereedschap voor de AGA vuurtoren

AGA lens

Panama Channel AGA-beacon in Sweden

Panama Channel AGA-beacon in Sweden 

In 1911 the AGA Company was chosen to provide a lighthouse
system for the Panama Canal, and by 1912 an increasing
number of coastal installations in Sweden, and in several
other parts of the world, had installed the Dalén system of
lighting. Dalén’s system made it possible for lights to operate
automatically and without need of inspection for a year
or more. Before Dalén’s system, a lightship in Sweden cost
200,000 Kronor and had an annual maintenance cost of
25,000 Kronor. An automatically operated signal buoy costing
9,000 Kronor with an annual maintenance of only 60
Kronor could now replace this. The Blockhusudden
lighthouse in Stockholm installed the Dalén lighting
system in 1912, and it operated until 1980, having
consumed 1.8 million liters of acetylene by emitting 400 million
flashes in 68 years.
In September 1912 Dalén, then president of AGA, continued
his experiments on handling acetylene. In one particularly dangerous
test involving heating a gas accumulator, the device exploded.
Dalén was seriously injured and permanently blinded by this accident.
Two months after this accident, theNobel Prize in Physics for 1912
was announced.

History of the Amalgamated Gas Accumulator
AGA AB was started in 1904 near Stockholm, Sweden, by Gustaf Dalen, a 35-year-old engineer and ingenious inventor. The very next year AGA developed an automatic lighthouse mechanism that included the sun valve and the intermittent light regulator (the first innovations patented by AGA). Acetylene, with its bright light, was an excellent fuel for lighthouses, but it was too expensive when burned all day.

AGA’s intermittent light regulator reduced fuel consumption by 90 percent, and the sun valve cut consumption by another 4 percent. This meant lighthouses could be operated at a low cost and left unattended for long periods of time. In 1912, AGA won a contract to build a lighthouse system for the Panama Canal and Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his inventions in lighthouse technology.

In 1911, AGA founded American Gas Accumulator Co. in New Jersey and in ensuing years many lighthouses were installed around the Great Lakes. Although AGA’s stock in American Gas Accumulator Co. was sold in 1949, new operations had been established in other fields in the United States.

Oude kaarten en vuurtorens die niet meer bestaan

Solventilen

Trots framgången med klippljusapparaten var Gustaf Dalén inte nöjd, eftersom han tyckte att det var onödigt att fyrarna blinkade även under dagtid. Då uppfann han solventilen, en av hans mest berömda uppfinningar som blev färdig 1907. Principen är väldigt enkel, nämligen att ett mörkt föremål drar till sig mer solljus än ett ljust föremål. Värmen gör att det mörka föremålet utvidgar sig. Solventilen innehåller en svart stav omgiven av tre blanka. Den svarta staven är kopplad till ett membran som öppnar och stänger gasflödet. När staven utvidgas av solljuset med tvåtusendels millimiter, släcks fyren. När natten kommer krymper staven och gasen släpps åter fram till evighetslågan, så att fyren kan börja blinka igen.
”It won’t work”, lär Thomas Edison ha sagt om solventilen. Men det gjorde den. 1912 fick AGA en prestigeorder och tillverkade alla fyrar för Panamakanalen.

Isthmus of Panama

Faro

In 1912 the company won a huge order in the face of fierce competition. The entire Panama Canal was to be provided with AGA lighthouses.
In September Gustaf Dalén was badly injured in an explosion which left him blind for life. He was still convalescing when the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics. At the beginning of 1913 he returned as president, a position he was to hold for another 25 years.
AGA not only became a company in the forefront of technical development but also a social pioneer through its considerable efforts on behalf of its employees.

PANAMA CANAL-RANGE LIGHTS-LIGHTHOUSE.

PANAMA CANAL LIGHTHOUSE AT GATUN LOCKS.

Lighthouse, Gatun Locks

Alle Panama kanaal vuurtorens

Panama canal lighthouse

op nummer;

Nr. PN 1 is rechts boven

Nr PN  34 is links onder

PN 1

Isla Grande 

 PN 2

Farallon sucio Rock

PN 3

Toro Point Lighthouse

1965 Panama Canal –  Toro Point Lighthouse.

Toro Point Lighthouse Colon Panama Canal 1914.

PANAMA TORO POINT LIGHTHOUSE BY RAILWAY TRACK & SEA. 1914

PN 4

Atlantic Entree Range Middle

Lighthouse along Panama Canal.

Atlantic Entrance Range Middle Lighthouse, Panama.

Atlantic Entrance Range Middle Light Gatun

PN 5

Atlantic Entree Range Rear

Atlantic Entrance Range Middle Light, Gatún

PANAMA ATLANTIC ENTRANCE RANGE REAR LIGHTHOUSE.

Atlantic Entrance Range Rear Lighthouse, Panama.

PN 6

Gatún Northbound Rear

Gatún Northbound Rear  Gatún Locks  Panama.

Panama Canal.

GATUN

 

Old Gatun Northbound Rear Lighthouse, Panama Canal – 12/11/21. — met Victoria Sheldon Reyer bij Gatun Locks Panama Canal, photo Robert Ro

 

 

Gatun 1923.

Gatun Locks Lighthouse.

PN 7

Gatún Southbound Front

PN 8

 Gatún Southbound Rear

Southbound Range Light located in the town of Gatun on Lighthouse Road

PN 9

Peña Blanca Southbound Front

Peña Blanca Southbound Front. De voorste

PN 10

Peña Blanca Southbound Rear

De achterste

PN 11

Buena Vista Northbound Front

Buena Vista Northbound,  2 witte torens

Buena Vista Northbound Front

de voorste

PN 12

Buena Vista Northbound Rear

De achterste

PN 13

Tabernilla Northbound Front

PN 14

Tabernilla Northbound Rear

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PN 15

Buena Vista Southbound Front

Buena Vista Southbound Front.

PN 16

Buena Vista Southbound Rear

Buena Vista Southbound rear.

PN 17

San Pablo Northbound Front

San Pablo Northbound Front

PN 18

San Pablo Northbound Rear

San Pablo Northbound Rear

PN 19

Tabernilla Southbound Front

PN 20

Tabernilla Southbound Rear

Tabernilla Southbound Rear

Pn 21

Mamei Curve Northbound Front

Mamei Curve Northbound Front

PN 22

Gamboa Northbound Front

PN 23

Gamboa Northbound Rear

Gamboa Northbound Range Lights.

Gamboa Northbound Reach Front Light

PN 24

Gamboa Southbound Front

Gamboa Southbound Front Lighthouse, Panama.

 Rear.

PN 25

Balboa (Miraflores) Northbound Front

Miraflores Northbound Front Light.

PN 26

Balboa (Miraflores) Northbound Rear

Balboa Miraflores Northbound Rear Light, Panama.

PN 27

Pacific Entrance Range Rear

Pacific Entrance Range Rear

Pacific Entrance Range Rear Lighthouse, Panama.

PN 28

Pacific Entrance Range Front

LIGHTHOUSE AT PACIFIC ENTRANCE PANAMA CANAL 1919.

Lighthouses at Balboa Entrance to Panama Canal.

PANAMA Pacific Coast Range Lighthouse 1910.

Pacific Entrance Range Front, Panama.

PN 29

Balboa Southbound Front

PN 30

 Balboa Southbound Rear

Balboa Southbound Rear Light, Panama.

Panama Canal was to be provided with AGA lighthousesPanama Canal with AGA lighthouses

 Rear range lighthouse

PN 31

Flamenco Island (Pacific Signal Station)

Pacific Signal Station Light on Flamenco Island, Pacific Entrance.

This “top of a lighthouse” is the first light a ship sees when it travels northbound through the Canal.

PN 32

Punta Mala (1914)

Lighthouse at Punta Mala, Panama

a photo album containing images from Wetmore’s Panama trip in 1948

PN 33

Punta Mala (new)

Punta Mala Lighthouse, turned over to the Republic of Panama in 1979.

No longer in operation and in dire need of restoration. 

2000 UPDATE:  President Moscoso, has recently renovated this historical beacon and we congratulate her efforts. 

An updated photograph will be provided shortly.

Punta Mala,  G 3242

PN 34

 Frailes del Sur

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larrymyhre/7346505000/in/photostream/

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/resources/PanamaCanalLighthouses.pdf

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/photos/Panama/Seeryphotos2.htm

 http://www.lighthousesrus.org/showSql.php?page=SA/Panama

Reklamannons för AGA 1920

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