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Chronology of Aids to Navigation
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of the vessels of the Lighthouse Service, including the detail of medical officers. (USLHS AR 1926, p. 5).
1926	(14 July) The first radio beacon established in Alaska, at Cape Spencer, was placed In commission. (USLHS AR 1927, p. 3)
1926	(1 October) An airways division, headed by a chief engineer, was set up as a part of the Lighthouse Service, its work covering the examination of airways and emergency landing fields and the erection and maintenance of aids to air navigation. (USUIS AR 1927, pp. 1, 6).
1926	During Fiscal Year 1926, the Lighthouse Service installed an automatic time clock for operating electric range lights. (USLHS AR 1926, p. 5).
1927	(1 March) A system of broadcasting weather reports by radio on four lightships on the Pacific coast was put into effect. (USLHS AR 1927,p. 3).
1927	The Kilauea Point Lighthouse on the northernmost point of Kauai Island, Hawaii, was the first landfall made in the first flight by airplane from the Pacific coast of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, being sighted from the air at a distance of 90 miles. (USCG p. 24).
1928	(2 March) The Lighthouse Service began a new system of publishing at Detroit,
Michigan, local notices to mariners for the Great Lakes and connecting waters. (USLHS AR 1928, p. 9).
1928	During Fiscal Year 1928, the first radio beacon in the United States, automatic In operation, was completed by the Lighthouse Service and was in satisfactory operation.
(USLHS AR 1928, p. 5).
1929	(February) A representative of the Lighthouse Service attended the meeting of the technical committee for buoyage and lighting of coasts, of the League of Nations, held in Genoa, Italy, and took part in its deliberations. (USLHS AR 1929, p. 2).
1929	(May) The first synchronized radio beacon and air fog signal, the latter an electric oscillator, was put into commission at Cape Henry, Virginia. (USLHS AR 1929, p. 5).
1929	(July) Official representatives of the Lighthouse Service attended an International Lighthouse Conference, the first ever held, in London, Great Britain. This conference, attended by representatives of 24 countries, was informal, its purpose being the exchange of information and the discussion of problems affecting lighthouse systems. (USLHS AR 1930, p. 7).
During Fiscal Year 1930, a new accounting system, designed by the General Accounting Office, was Installed in the Lighthouse Service headquarters office, as well as in the 12th and 15th Lighthouse Districts. Within a year, eight Lighthouse Districts were using this new system and, by 1932, all of the districts were using it. (USLHS AR 1930, p. 7; USLHS AR 1931, p. 6; USLHS AR 1932, p. 5).
1930	(18 June) An Act of Congress provided "for the transfer of the old lighthouse at Cape Henry, Va., to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiques." (USUIS AR 1930, p.
8).
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