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Lighthouses and Lightships / A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization

Chapter 40: List of Illustrations.
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The book surveys the development, construction, and administration of coastal lights from ancient fire-towers to modern pharoses and lightships, describing engineering of towers and illuminating apparatus, distribution and management of lights, notable examples in Britain and France (including Eddystone, Bell Rock, Skerryvore, and Cordouan), and auxiliary aids such as lightships, buoys, and beacons. It explains interior arrangements and keeper life, traces technological improvements in lamps and lenses, and outlines legal and organizational systems that govern maintenance. An appendix lists lights along the British and Irish coasts and provides practical accounts and illustrations drawn from examinations and contemporary sources.

 

List of Illustrations.

Eddystone Lighthouse (Frontispiece). 
The Beacon Fire,1
A Roman Pharos,15
A Medal of Apameia,16
Ancient Pharos of Alexandria,23
Modern Lighthouse of Alexandria,27
Tour d’Ordre of Boulogne,33
The Tower at Dover,39
The Colossus of Rhodes,45
Trinity House,58
Lighthouse on a Rocky Headland,64
Catoptric Apparatus,72
An Argand Fountain Lamp,74
Revolving Apparatus on the Catoptric Principle,75
Annular-built Lens,78
Electric Apparatus for Fixed Light,82
Annular Lens of First Order,85
Diagram, Illustrating Progress of Luminous Ray in a Catadioptric Ring,87
Fresnel’s Revolving Light,90
Stevenson’s Holophotal Light,91
Stevenson’s Fixed Light varied by Flashes,92
Fresnel’s Fixed Light Apparatus,93
French Fixed Light Apparatus,93
Cupola of First-class Lighthouse,100
Sea-Birds attracted by Lighthouse Rays,105
Winstanley’s Eddystone Lighthouse,111
Smeaton’s Lighthouse at the Eddystone, 127
The Lightship at the Nore,131
The Smalls Lighthouse,135
Inchkeith Lighthouse,146
Building the Bell Rock Lighthouse,150
The Bell Rock Lighthouse,163
Skerryvore Lighthouse,178
North Unst Lighthouse,183
Transporting a Lighthouse,187
Needles Lighthouse,190
Wolf’s Crag Lighthouse,195
Bishop Rock Lighthouse,197
Lizard Point Lighthouse,198
Plymouth Breakwater Lighthouse,199
North Foreland Lighthouse,201
South Foreland Lighthouse,202
Holyhead Lighthouse,203
Kinsale Lighthouse,204
Fastnet Rock Lighthouse,205
Maplin Sands Lighthouse,206
Alguada Reef Lighthouse,209
Ancient Tower of Cordouan,215
Present Lighthouse of Cordouan,219
Interior of Cordouan Lighthouse,222
Lighthouse of Cape La Hève,229
Erection of Lighthouse at the Héaux,241
Lighthouse of the Enfant Perdu,247
Lighthouse at New Caledonia,251
The Lightship,257
Pompey’s Pillar,267
A Floating Beacon,271
The Arnish Beacon,274
Eddystone Lighthouse in a Storm,283
Girdleness Lighthouse,298
Whalsey Skerries Lighthouse,300
Ship Rock of Sanda Lighthouse,301