0 a tall building near the coast or shore with a flashing light at the top to warn ships of rocks and other dangers -- 燈塔
As a result of this complicated history, there were three types of private ownership of lighthouses.
Nevertheless, lighthouse reform enabled the whigs and radicals to pose as crusaders against local monopolies which the tories sought to perpetuate.
The advocates of lighthouse reform were thus not merely attacking corruption, they were attacking the very existence of private property in a public service.
There may be setup costs to build a lighthouse with the capacity to protect vessels moving at a given speed.
The state had to determine the legitimacy of the competing claims of lighthouse owners, pensioners, and shipowners to the property of the tolls.
The principle is similar to the use of lighthouses in marine navigation.
Now imagine that this light goes off and one comes on at the lighthouse.
Underpinning lighthouse reform, therefore, was a criticism of the willingness of government to make private property out of a public resource.
