A history of lighthouses
Edition: [1st American ed.].
Publisher: Citadel
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Secaucus, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780806503684
Subjects: Lighthouses; History; Histoire; Phares
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).
Table of contents: title: The need for sea-lights; title: Ancient sea-lights and towers; title: Philanthropists and speculators; title: Winstanley's tower on Eddystone Rock; title: Rudyerd and Smeaton on Eddystone; title: The last of the amateurs; title: The early nineteenth century; title: Heaux de Bréhat and Skerryvore; title: The age of engineering developments; title: A lighthouse built on sand; title: Fin de siècle; title: Towers of the New World; title: The nineteenth century in America; title: The American seaboard illuminated; title: Progress in west and east; title: The revolution in construction methods; title: The telescopic principle; title: Sea-lights and automation.