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Book Synopsis Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse by : Adam Hart-Davis
Download or read book Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse written by Adam Hart-Davis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Hart-Davis vividly recreates the story of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the character of the man who built it, and the power of the elements that finally destroyed them both.
Book Synopsis The Eddystone Light-House, a Poem, Etc by :
Download or read book The Eddystone Light-House, a Poem, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short Account of the Eddystone Light-house by : William Morgan Kinsey
Download or read book A Short Account of the Eddystone Light-house written by William Morgan Kinsey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eddystone light-house, a poem. To which is subjoined an historical account of every remarkable occurrence that has transpired since the first lighthouse was erected 1696 by : Michael Rough
Download or read book The Eddystone light-house, a poem. To which is subjoined an historical account of every remarkable occurrence that has transpired since the first lighthouse was erected 1696 written by Michael Rough and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Account of the Eddystone Light-House and rocks. (Chiefly compiled from Mr. Smeaton's large work on the Eddystone Light-House.) With plates by : John SMEATON (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.)
Download or read book An Account of the Eddystone Light-House and rocks. (Chiefly compiled from Mr. Smeaton's large work on the Eddystone Light-House.) With plates written by John SMEATON (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eddystone Light-House, a Poem: by M- R-, Late Schoolmaster of the Union of Cahir. To which is Subjoined, an Historical Account of Every Remarkable Occurrence that Has Transpired Since the First Light-house was Erected on the Eddystone Rock, 1696 by : M- R- (late Schoolmaster of the Union of Cahir.)
Download or read book The Eddystone Light-House, a Poem: by M- R-, Late Schoolmaster of the Union of Cahir. To which is Subjoined, an Historical Account of Every Remarkable Occurrence that Has Transpired Since the First Light-house was Erected on the Eddystone Rock, 1696 written by M- R- (late Schoolmaster of the Union of Cahir.) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eddystone Light by : Fred Majdalany
Download or read book The Eddystone Light written by Fred Majdalany and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eddystone light-house, a poem by M- R-. by : M. R
Download or read book The Eddystone light-house, a poem by M- R-. written by M. R and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse by : John Smeaton (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.)
Download or read book The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse written by John Smeaton (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seashaken Houses written by Tom Nancollas and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitarian than that. Today we still depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland which form a ring of twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves. Seashaken Housesis a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.
Download or read book Eddystone written by Mike Palmer and published by Seafarer Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full account of the construction of lighthouses over 300 years on the Eddystone Rocks.
Book Synopsis The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse by :
Download or read book The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone by : John Smeaton
Download or read book A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone written by John Smeaton and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sentinels of the Sea by : R. G. Grant
Download or read book Sentinels of the Sea written by R. G. Grant and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smallest of rock outcrops and the innovations that made the lights so powerful and reliable. Intricate, elegant architectural plans and elevations, and evocative period drawings and photographs showcase the innovative designs and technologies behind fifty historic lighthouses built around the world from the 17th to the 20th century. R.G. Grant's engaging and authoritative text chronicles the incredible feats of engineering and endurance that brought these iconic, isolated towers into being, the advances in lens technology that made the lights so effective, and the everyday routines of the lighthouse keepers and the heroic rescues that some performed. Packed with extraordinary stories of human endeavour, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues, the book also reveals the isolation and vulnerability of the dedicated lighthouse keepers.
Book Synopsis Keepers of the Light by : Donald Graham
Download or read book Keepers of the Light written by Donald Graham and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BC classic hailed by the Vancouver Sun as A moving, very human story.
Download or read book Brilliant written by Jane Brox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Book Synopsis The Last Lighthouse Keeper by : John Cook
Download or read book The Last Lighthouse Keeper written by John Cook and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature. In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the "kerosene keepers": he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchant marine. Far from reviling work on isolated islands such as Tasman and Maatsuyker, Australia's southernmost lighthouse, he discovered that he loved the solitude and delighted in the sense of purpose that light keeping gave him. He did two stints on Tasman, in 1969-71 and 1977, and was the head keeper on Maatsuyker for eight years. Tasman's kerosene light was a pressure lamp fuelled by two big bottles that had to be pumped up to 75 pounds per square inch (about 516 kilopascals): "It was the equivalent of pumping up a tyre every 20 minutes," John says. "Then you had to wind up the weights - they went down the tower and turned the prism around like a big clockwork. If the weights went all the way to the bottom, the light would stop. "The main thing was that 365 nights of the year you sat in that tower, 100 feet up, and you had to stay awake," John says of Tasman. "If you fell asleep the light would stop and then you were in trouble." Keepers took watches around the clock, in a system similar to that on a ship. Day watches weren't a chance to slack off: standing orders required the watchkeeper to look seawards at least every half-hour and to log sightings of any vessels, and their course, in the area. "But the main thing was there was always maintenance to do," John says. "Because Mother Nature was your boss. She'd blow gutters off, that sort of thing - she was always stickin' her bib in, and you were repairin' it." Tasman keepers also ran a herd of up to 500 sheep. They didn't have a freezer, so they'd kill and dress a sheep every fortnight. John supplemented his bulk stores, delivered every three months by the lighthouse supply vessel, with extras brought on the bi-monthly mail boat, and by keeping chooks, ducks and turkeys. "I never ran out of things to do," he says. "In my free time I used to do correspondence courses - I did navigation, diesel mechanics, business management and accounting." In 1977, keepers left the Tasman quarters forever. "I've got such strong memories of those places with people in them, and kids' voices rattlin' around," John says. "It breaks my heart to think about those places sittin' out there empty with no lights on."
