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THE cloud produced by the puff of a locomotive can obliterate the noonday sun; it is not therefore surprising that in dense fogs our most powerful coast lights, including even the electric light, become useless to the mariner.
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The Acoustic Transparency and Opacity of the Atmosphere* . Nature 9, 251–253 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009251a0
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