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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 : D. Alan Stevenson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157083
Total Pages : 477 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 477 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 : Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135041705X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Metropolitan Science written by Rebekah Higgitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1600-1800. Beginning with the demographics of London in the 17th and 18th centuries, including its attraction of migrants, importance as a centre of empire, and the role of its institutions in government, the authors analyse how and why London was a unique site of scientific activity. Through the use of case studies, such as the Tower of London's Royal Mint, and the Livery Company Halls, this book examines the city's sites of exchange for knowledge and practice, and highlights the importance of both public and private spaces. With exploration of London's military and colonial history, the authors acknowledge how its port and maritime trade were not only central to growth and protection, but also facilitated the organisation, assessment, valuation, and pursuit of knowledge in the city. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that London corporations produced unique knowledge communities that drew on networks across the city and beyond, and uses a variety of spatial and material approaches to reveal the use, representation, and exchange of practice in these collective settings.
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 : Michael J. Rhein
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785836047
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses written by Michael J. Rhein and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheer beauty of the elegant, lonely lighthouses along our shores--and their unspoiled, scenic natural settings--has captivated our collective imagination. A celebration of one of America's purest landmarks, The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses is a must-have for any home.
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 : Veronica della Dora
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145481
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Where Light in Darkness Lies written by Veronica della Dora and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating history of both real-life lighthouses and the beacons of literature and art alike, shedding light on the multifaceted power of these liminal structures. Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battle lines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess. Engineered to draw the gaze of sailors, lighthouses have likewise long attracted the attention of soldiers and saints, artists and poets, novelists and filmmakers, colonizers and migrants, and, today more than ever, heritage tourists and developers. Their evocative locations, isolation, and resilience, have turned these structures into complex metaphors, magnets for stories. This book explores the rich story of the lighthouse in the human imagination.
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 : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toby Chance
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780091044
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Lighthouses written by Toby Chance and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851: James Chance, of the glass-making firm Chance Brothers, is nervously showcasing a new lens, that, unknown to him, will revolutionise lighthouse production, propel his family business into a position of world leadership, save countless lives and have far-reaching consequences for trade, empire and the map of the world.This is where "Lighthouses" begins. The true-life story that follows is of one man and his family's unexpected role in an exciting race to perfect this technology, against European rivals and colleagues, as they strive to regain for Britain the leadership position she had lost to the French in the 1820s.This fascinating story places James Chance and the Chance Brothers firm against the backdrop of a time in which lighthouse manufacture was transformed from a craft into a scientific, high-precision industry. As a tool for globalisation, and with immense strategic and economic value, lighthouses helped to establish a network of communications that transformed the trade maps of countries and empires.
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 : Thomas Kingston Derry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486274721
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 written by Thomas Kingston Derry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly readable, profusely illustrated survey relates technology to history of every age: food production, metalworking, mining, steam power, transportation, electricity, and much more. 354 black-and-white illustrations. 1961 edition.
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).
Author : RWH Miller
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718840747
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book One Firm Anchor written by RWH Miller and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One Firm Anchor is a fantastic introduction to the history of chaplaincy at sea and what preceded it. Miller argues that the fractious period of the Reformation was pivotal: before, there was no formal ministry and only scattered welfare provision for seafarers; afterwards, chaplains were increasingly found at sea, and seafarers became increasingly the recipients of the modern approach to mission. One Firm Anchor adds substantially to the seminal work of Peter F. Anson and Roald Kverndal. Published to coincide with the 2012 International Conference of the Apostleship of the Sea, this is an important new work for all involved in seafaring as well as maritime historians."
Author : Marc I. Pinsel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book 150 Years of Service on the Seas: (1830-1946) written by Marc I. Pinsel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Denis Aldridge
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9185509310
Total Pages : 383 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 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé disponible à l'adresse.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Isis written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-03 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
