1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.

1755年的今天，第二座埃迪斯通灯塔被大火烧毁。

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1703 - the first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

1703年，第一座埃迪斯通灯塔在1703年的大风暴中被毁。

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The first lighthouse made of interlocking masonry blocks was built on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks reef, Off Plymouth, England (1759).

第一座用石块砌成的灯塔在1759年建于英国普里茅斯港近海的不牢靠的涡石礁上。

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The boldest advance came in the 17th-century, when Henry Winstanley, an eccentric inventor and practical joker (he had chairs in his house that flew up in the air), took it upon himself to build a lighthouse on the lethal Eddystone Rock, 14 miles from the English port of Plymouth.

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