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Author : David Stevenson
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses Before 1820 written by David Stevenson and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Alan Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758168399
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses Before 1820 written by David Alan Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Alan Stevenson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157083
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses written by D. Alan Stevenson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb, profusely illustrated survey by noted authority recounts the history of seamarks from antiquity to the early 19th century. 261 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Alan Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses Before 1820 written by Alan Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : David Alan STEVENSON (F.I.C.E.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses Before 1820. [With Illustrations.]. written by David Alan STEVENSON (F.I.C.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. alan Stevenson
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The world's lighthouses before 1820, by d. alan stevenson written by D. alan Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The World's Lighthouses written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. W. Skempton
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727729392
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (293 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830 written by A. W. Skempton and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.
Author : Christopher P. Nicholson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781870325417
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Rock Lighthouses of Britain written by Christopher P. Nicholson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When waves higher than the vessels that sail upon them smash against the half-submerged rocks at the extremities our coastline, the whole ocean becomes a raging foam which continues to claim the lives of unwary navigators. Man's struggle to build a permanent and durable structure such as a lighthouse on these sites is a story that cannot fail to stir the emotions of anyone who enjoys tales of endeavour, ingenuity and dogged determination. In this second edition of his book, Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world's most famous lighthouses. Book jacket.
Author : Sarah C. Gleason
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kindly Lights written by Sarah C. Gleason and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kindly Lights chronicles the history of the lights from the early days of the colonies, when lighthouses were built shoddily and haphazardly, usually soon after an all-too-predictable shipwreck, to the mid-nineteenth century when a national lighthouse system was established. In one compelling chapter, the author uncovers the story of David Melville, who conducted a remarkable experiment in gas lighting at Rhode Island's Beavertail lighthouse in 1817/18. It was to be a short-lived trial; Melville's innovations were resisted by Nantucket whalers fearful of losing their lucrative lighthouse oil market and by federal inspector Winslow Lewis, who plays a part in Melville's failure, as he did in so much of the history of the new nation's attempts to build a rational and technically sound lighthouse system.
Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547487150
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
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
Author : John M. Bryan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568982960
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Robert Mills written by John M. Bryan and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps most interesting is the range of buildings and machines that Mills designed - from monuments and local courthouses, to prisons and churches, bridges and canals, to rotary piston engines and fireproof masonry vaults - all during a revolutionary era of building technology in America.".
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300030464
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 written by John R. Stilgoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization
Author : David Denis Aldridge
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9185509310
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Admiral Sir John Norris and the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715-1727 written by David Denis Aldridge and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé disponible à l'adresse.
Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469652528
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Inventing Disaster written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and America. Beginning with the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, and highlighting fires, epidemics, earthquakes, and exploding steamboats along the way, Cynthia A. Kierner tells horrific stories of culturally significant calamities and their victims and charts efforts to explain, prevent, and relieve disaster-related losses. Although how we interpret and respond to disasters has changed in some ways since the nineteenth century, Kierner demonstrates that, for better or worse, the intellectual, economic, and political environments of earlier eras forged our own twenty-first-century approach to disaster, shaping the stories we tell, the precautions we ponder, and the remedies we prescribe for disaster-ravaged communities.
Author : Willi Hager
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466554983
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000 written by Willi Hager and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 850 individuals partly forgotten by name, but sometimes found in historical writings, together with many well known or recently deceased persons are presented in terms of bio-data, short career highlights, and main advances made to the profession with a short biography of the main writings. If available, a portrait is also included.
Author : Marc I. Pinsel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book 150 Years of Service on the Seas written by Marc I. Pinsel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This history chronicles the course that led to the creation of the present Naval Oceanographic Office."--Preface (p. vii).
