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Author | : Ray Jones |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2013-08-20 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1493001701 |
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A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A detailed index of more than 150 lighthouses around the world offers quick and easy access to basic information—know the height, age, elevation, optic type and status for every lighthouse! An appendix listing lighthouse groups nationwide makes it easy to see these historic treasures, visit museums and get involved with preservation. See how the appearance or location of lights has changed over time. Read about the historical contributions made by Augustin Fresnel, Winslow Lewis and Stephen Pleasanton, and learn about breakwater lights, caissons, lightships, mercury baths, daymarks and clamshell lenses. The most complete reference book on lighthouses—which won a Benjamin Franklin book design award in hardcover—is finally available in paperback. Ray Jones is a leading authority on lighthouses and the author of more than 14 books and countless magazine articles on American history. He lives in Pebble Beach, California.
Author | : Ray Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2017-02-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781493029822 |
Download Lighthouse Encyclopedia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A detailed index of more than 150 lighthouses around the world offers quick and easy access to basic information--know the height, age, elevation, optic type and status for every lighthouse! An appendix listing lighthouse groups nationwide makes it easy to see these historic treasures, visit museums and get involved with preservation. See how the appearance or location of lights has changed over time. Read about the historical contributions made by Augustin Fresnel, Winslow Lewis and Stephen Pleasanton, and learn about breakwater lights, caissons, lightships, mercury baths, daymarks and clamshell lenses. The most complete reference book on lighthouses--which won a Benjamin Franklin book design award in hardcover--is finally available in paperback.Ray Jones is a leading authority on lighthouses and the author of more than 14 books and countless magazine articles on American history. He lives in Pebble Beach, California.
Author | : Larry Wright |
Publisher | : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than 650 Great Lakes lighthouses; US and Canada, current and historic. For each there is a description that includes history and construction details, and if open to the public how to access it.
Author | : Frederick A. Talbot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ray Jones |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2023-04-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1493047272 |
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New England's lighthouses project more than lifesaving beams across treacherous expanses of water. They also project an aura of steadfastness, dependability, and safety--and deservedly so. This guide features descriptions and beautiful photographs of more than sixty lighthouses from Northern Maine to the Long Island Sound.
Author | : William Tregarthen Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375802185 |
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Author | : Frederick A. Talbot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781332351992 |
Download Lightships and Lighthouses (Classic Reprint) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Excerpt from Lightships and Lighthouses Romances innumerable have been woven around the flaming guardians of the coast, but it is doubtful whether any purely imaginative work is so fascinating and absorbing as the plain unvarnished narrative of how some famous lightship or lighthouse has been brought into existence. And the story of construction is equalled in even, way by that relating to the operation and maintenance of the light, against all odds, for the guidance of those who have business upon the ocean. This volume is not a history of lightships and lighthouses; neither is it a technical treatise. Rather my object has been to relate how the difficulties, peculiar and prodigious, have been overcome by the builders in their efforts to mark some terrible danger-spots, both on the mainland and isolated sea-rocks. While the lines of the lightship and lighthouse are familiar to all, popular knowledge concerning the internal apparatus of the building or ship is somewhat hazy. Therefore I have explained, with technicalities simplified as much as possible, the equipment of the tower and vessel, and the methods whereby both visual and audible warnings are given. The very latest developments in this field of engineering and science are incorporated, so as to render the subject as comprehensive as possible within the limits of a single volume. In the compilation of this book I have received the heartiest assistance from those who are prominently associated with the work of providing adequate aids to navigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-06-24 |
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ISBN | : |
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'Lightships and Lighthouses', is a poignant, heavily-researched book by the esteemed writer Frederick Talbot, detailing the different types of lightships and lighthouses throughout the world. It also takes a look into the life of lighthouse keepers - where and how they lived, including pictures of their living quarters. The book has greatly detailed images, from the different types of lights used in the lighthouses, to the different lighthouses found worldwide - everywhere from Scotland, Halifax, California, and Maine.
Author | : Samuel Willard Crompton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : 9781552679982 |
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