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Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse

Alan Stevenson · Engineering_and_Technology · 45 章

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ACCOUNT OF THE SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE, WITH NOTES ON THE ILLUMINATION OF LIGHTHOUSES;PREFACE.CONTENTS.APPENDIX.PLATES.ERRATA.INTRODUCTION.CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHIC NOTICE OF THE SKERRYVORE ROCK.CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS AND WORKS, INCLUDING SURVEY OF THE ROCKS, AND OPENING OF QUARRIES, FROM 1834 to 1837.CHAPTER III. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTHOUSE TOWERS.Chapter 11 CHAPTER IV. OPERATIONS OF 1838.Chapter 13 CHAPTER V. OPERATIONS OF 1839.CHAPTER VI. OPERATIONS OF 1840.CHAPTER VII. OPERATIONS OF 1841.CHAPTER VIII. OPERATIONS OF 1842.CHAPTER IX. CONCLUDING OPERATIONS AND EXHIBITION OF THE LIGHT.Chapter 19 PART SECOND. NOTES ON THE ILLUMINATION OF LIGHTHOUSES, WITH SHORT NOTICES OF THEIR EARLY HISTORY.Chapter 21 CATOPTRIC[39] SYSTEM OF LIGHTS.Chapter 23 DIOPTRIC[50] SYSTEM OF LIGHTS.Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 VARIOUS GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS CONNECTED WITH LIGHTHOUSES.Chapter 30 APPENDIX.APPENDIX, No. I. TABLE OF CO-ORDINATES OF AN HYPERBOLIC COLUMN WHOSE DIAMETER AT THE TOP = 16 FEET, AT THE BASE = 42 FEET, AND HEIGHT = 120·25 FEET.APPENDIX, No. II. NOTES ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PARABOLOÏDAL REFLECTORS, from Information furnished by Mr James Murdoch, of the Northern Lights Service.Prices of the various parts of the Dioptric Apparatus.APPENDIX, No. IV. TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS OF CATADIOPTRIC ZONES SUITED FOR LIGHTS OF THE FIRST ORDER IN THE SYSTEM OF AUGUSTIN FRESNEL.APPENDIX, No. V. NOTICE TO MARINERS.—SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE.APPENDIX, No. VI. ACCOUNT OF THE EXPENSE OF ERECTING THE SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE AND OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORKS.APPENDIX, No. VII. EXCERPTS FROM AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS UPON THE FORCE OF THE WAVES OF THE ATLANTIC AND GERMAN OCEANS. By Thomas Stevenson, F.R.S.E., Civil-Engineer, Edinburgh. (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XVI.)APPENDIX, No. VIII. LIST OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES, BEACONS AND BUOYS. FOR 1848.Chapter 40 APPENDIX, No. IX. REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES, FOR THE YEAR 1846; WITH APPENDICES. By Alexander Cuningham, W.S., Secretary to the Board.Chapter 42 Chapter 43 APPENDIX, No. X. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LIGHT-KEEPERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES.THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE