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A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port.
An airway beacon (US) or aerial lighthouse (UK and Europe) was a rotating light assembly mounted atop a tower. These were once used extensively in the United States for visual navigation by airplane pilots along a specified airway corridor. In Europe, they were used to guide aircraft with lighted beacons at night. [1] [2]
Made Man is a 2006 third-person shooter video game developed by the UK company SilverBack Studios and published by Mastertronic and Aspyr for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the year 1972 within the New York City underworld of organized crime in the Mafia.
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The Software Toolworks, Inc. (commonly abbreviated as Toolworks), was an American software and video game developer based in Novato, California.The company was founded by Walt Bilofsky in 1980 out of his Sherman Oaks garage, which he converted into an office, to develop software for the Heathkit H89 microcomputer.
The game is played by wandering through a mansion, solving logic puzzles and watching videos that further the story.The main antagonist, Henry Stauf, is an ever-present menace, taunting the player with clues, mocking the player as they fail his puzzles ("We'll all be dead by the time you solve this!"), and expressing displeasure when the player succeeds ("Don't think you'll be so lucky next ...
The towers were used for the transmission of a specific prearranged message. One tower would light its flame, the next tower would see the fire, and light its own. In Aeschylus tragedy Agamemnon , a slave watchman character learns the news of Troy 's fall from Mycenae by carefully watching a fire beacon.