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- 1. Robert Foulis invented the foghorn By: Mélissa Godin foghorn foghorn
- 2. Inventor Name: Robert Foulis Province or territory: Scotland Town or village: Glasgow Profession: a civil engineer and artist Date of birth:1796-1866 He move from Scotland to come live in saint-john ( New-Brunswick)
- 3. The invention the foghorn Year of the invention: 1854 History of the invention: Robert Foulis heard his daughter playing the piano on a foggy night, and notice the lower notes were more audible then the higher notes. And after he designed a device to produce a low-frequency sound and as a code system. Description of the invention: the foghorn was made out of like medal and has very big to put on a top of a house Functionality of the invention: it was use of warning for boat on foggy night about rocks, shoals, headlands and other danger of shipping. Utility of the invention today: today the foghorn is not use anymore because the lighthouse became more common.
- 4. More information did the inventor obtained prizes for that invention: Mr. Foulis didn't get any prize but he had success and failure at patenting his foghorn. And Mr. Foulis died in poverty ( not rich ). Has the invention changed over the years: the invention change because it use to be a foghorn but over that year it change to a lighthouse in the 1960 and 1970 Other interesting information: is that Mr. Foulis was involved himself in legal battle over his invention for the reminder of he life.
- 5. Photos of the invention Foghorn far away Foghorn up close On a building
- 6. Photos of the inventor Mr. Robert Foulis in the 1796 till 1866
- 7. Where they inventor lived Scotland, Glasgow Saint-John Before He live in Scotland and decided to move to new-Brunswick in saint-John