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ARDOIS LIGHT SYSTEM
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The Ardois light system, or the Ardois Telephotos light system, was a communications system and method used by the U.S. Navy in the late 19th century to enable ship to ship communications at night.
Each installation used a series of eight double lamps (four red and four white) hung vertically from a mast and read from top to bottom, (if mounted horizontally, they were read from the transmitter's right to the left). The code used was effectively a visual version of Morse code, with one color indicating a 'dot' and the other color a 'dash'.
In 1897 the system was improved by adding an a better keyboard, known as the "Telephotos."
References
- Christopher H. Sterling, Military communications: from ancient times to the 21st century, p. 27, 2008 ISBN 9781851097371
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