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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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