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Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer

Chapter 1: LIFE OF ROBERT STEVENSON.
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The biography traces Robert Stevenson’s life and career from his early years through retirement, compiling extracts from professional reports, diary entries, and scientific papers. It documents his lighthouse work including the Bell Rock and Wolf Rock projects and his experiments in illumination such as flashing, intermittent, and dioptric systems. Other chapters cover roads, bridges, harbours, ferries, railways, cranes, marine surveying, timber preservation, and fisheries, supported by plans and plates. Technical descriptions are presented largely unaltered, offering practical detail on 18th–19th century civil engineering practice and urban improvements around Edinburgh.

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Title: Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer

Author: David Stevenson

Release date: September 21, 2017 [eBook #55596]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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LIFE OF ROBERT STEVENSON.

Edinburgh University Press:
THOMAS AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.

J. SYME DELINEAVIT.

J. HORSBURGH SCULPSIT.

ROBERT STEVENSON F.R.S.E.
CIVIL ENGINEER.
From a bust by Joseph, placed in the Library of the Bell Rock Lighthouse by the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses

LIFE
OF
ROBERT STEVENSON

CIVIL ENGINEER

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
FELLOW OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY
OF SCOTTISH ANTIQUARIES, OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY
SOCIETY, AND OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

ENGINEER TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES AND TO
THE CONVENTION OF ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND, ETC.

BY
DAVID STEVENSON

CIVIL ENGINEER

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH;
MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, ETC.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH
E. AND F. N. SPON, LONDON AND NEW YORK
1878.