Lighthouses
by William John Hardy
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hardy, William John, 1857-1919
- Title
- Lighthouses : Their history and romance
- Original Publication
- Not Listed: The Religious Tract Society, 1895.
- Credits
- Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
- Subject
- Lighthouses -- Great Britain
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76041
- Release Date
- May 7, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIGHTHOUSES THEIR HISTORY AND ROMANCE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL LIGHTHOUSES
- 6.CHAPTER II THE TRINITY HOUSE
- 7.CHAPTER III ANCIENT METHODS OF LIGHTING
- 8.CHAPTER IV GRACE DARLING
- 9.CHAPTER V THE SPURN HEAD
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE HUMBER TO THE THAMES
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE NORE LIGHTSHIP
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE GOODWIN SANDS AND THE FORELANDS
- 13.CHAPTER IX DUNGENESS LIGHTHOUSE
- 14.CHAPTER X ST. CATHERINE’S POINT TO THE EDDYSTONE
- 15.CHAPTER XI SUGGESTIONS FOR A LIGHTHOUSE ON THE EDDYSTONE—HENRY WINSTANLEY
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE FIRST EDDYSTONE
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE SECOND EDDYSTONE
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE THIRD AND FOURTH LIGHTHOUSES AT THE EDDYSTONE
- 19.CHAPTER XV THE LIZARD
- 20.CHAPTER XVI THE WOLF, THE LAND’S END, AND THE LONGSHIPS
- 21.CHAPTER XVII THE SCILLIES
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII LIGHTHOUSES ON THE WESTERN COAST
- 23.FOOTNOTES
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