Lightships and Lighthouses
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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About this eBook
- Author
- Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-1924
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
- Subject
- Lighthouses
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52817
- Release Date
- August 16, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIGHTSHIPS AND LIGHTHOUSES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE LIGHTHOUSE
- 6.CHAPTER II BUILDING A LIGHTHOUSE
- 7.CHAPTER III THE LIGHT AND ILLUMINANTS
- 8.CHAPTER IV FOG-SIGNALS
- 9.CHAPTER V THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE
- 10.CHAPTER VI SOME FAMOUS LIGHTS OF ENGLAND
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE BELL ROCK AND SKERRYVORE LIGHTS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE LONELY LIGHTS OF SCOTLAND
- 13.CHAPTER IX THE FASTNET, THE OUTPOST OF EUROPE
- 14.CHAPTER X LIGHTHOUSES BUILT ON SAND
- 15.CHAPTER XI SOME LIGHT PATROLS OF THE FRENCH COAST
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE GUARDIAN LIGHTS OF CANADA’S COAST
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE MINOT’S LEDGE LIGHT
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE TILLAMOOK ROCK LIGHT-STATION
- 19.CHAPTER XV THE COAST LIGHTS OF THE UNITED STATES
- 20.CHAPTER XVI THE LAMP-POSTS OF THE GREAT LAKES OF NORTH AMERICA
- 21.CHAPTER XVII THE MOST POWERFUL ELECTRIC LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII SOME LIGHTHOUSES IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS
- 23.CHAPTER XIX THE SIGNPOSTS OF THE SANDBANKS
- 24.CHAPTER XX A FLAMING SENTINEL OF THE MALACCA STRAITS
- 25.CHAPTER XXI UNATTENDED LIGHTHOUSES
- 26.CHAPTER XXII FLOATING LIGHTHOUSES
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII THE LIGHT-KEEPER AND HIS LIFE
- 28.INDEX
- 29.Transcriber’s Notes
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