This very primitive means of maintaining a light was exchanged in 1790 for a lantern, with lamps and other apparatus.  The Eddystone lighthouse was from the first illuminated by means of a chandelier, containing twenty-four wax candles, five of which weighed two pounds.  The Liverpool lighthouses had oil lamps, with rude reflectors.  Down to the year 1823 coal fires were used in several lighthouses.  Really good lights have come into universal use only during the last few years; and it is said that on the west coast of Sweden a coal fire is still used at an important lighthouse.