The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone LighthouseT. Nelson and Sons, 1876 - 117 من الصفحات |
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... means of building and maintaining lights , in return for permission to levy tolls on all passing shipping . Yet not much was done to render our dangerous coasts easier of approach by means of well - supplied lights . The first erected ...
... means of building and maintaining lights , in return for permission to levy tolls on all passing shipping . Yet not much was done to render our dangerous coasts easier of approach by means of well - supplied lights . The first erected ...
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... means of escape for its inmates , we can hardly suppose it to be the place an incendiary would select for the scene of his wicked attempt . It is possible that the man's nerves had been so tried by the terrible nature of the peril he ...
... means of escape for its inmates , we can hardly suppose it to be the place an incendiary would select for the scene of his wicked attempt . It is possible that the man's nerves had been so tried by the terrible nature of the peril he ...
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... means were required to secure a similar degree of solidity for the superstructure . A hole , one foot square , was accordingly cut right through the middle of the central stone in the sixth course ; and at equal distances in the ...
... means were required to secure a similar degree of solidity for the superstructure . A hole , one foot square , was accordingly cut right through the middle of the central stone in the sixth course ; and at equal distances in the ...
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... means of pulleys , so arranged that one man might easily raise a ton weight ; in November he describes certain expe- riments which had been made with Captain . Savary's steam - engine , the precursor of James Watt's . Meantime he was ...
... means of pulleys , so arranged that one man might easily raise a ton weight ; in November he describes certain expe- riments which had been made with Captain . Savary's steam - engine , the precursor of James Watt's . Meantime he was ...
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... mean to save your lives ! ' I immediately laid hold of the rope , at which he himself was hauling as well as the other seamen , though he was also managing the helm . I not only hauled with all my strength , but called to and encouraged ...
... mean to save your lives ! ' I immediately laid hold of the rope , at which he himself was hauling as well as the other seamen , though he was also managing the helm . I not only hauled with all my strength , but called to and encouraged ...
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الصفحة 117 - THE LIGHTHOUSE. THE rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day.
الصفحة 106 - His mind was as clear as crystal, and his demonstrations will be found mathematically conclusive. To this day there are no writings so valuable as his in the highest walks of scientific engineering ; and when young men ask me, as they frequently do, what they should read, I invariably say, 'Go to Smeaton's philosophical papers; read them, master them thoroughly, and nothing will be of greater service to you.
الصفحة 112 - To the dulling of my spirits : sit down and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer : he is drown'd Whom thus we stray to find ; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land.
الصفحة 48 - He forged his iron and steel, and melted his metal ; he had tools of every sort for working in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe by which he...
الصفحة 117 - A speechless wrath. that rises and subsides In the white lip and tremour of the face . And, as the evening darkens , lo ! how bright , Through the deep purple of the twilight air , Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light , With strange, unearthly...
الصفحة 27 - With that Winstanley went his way, And left the rock renowned, And summer and winter his pilot star Hung bright o'er Plymouth Sound. But it fell out, fell out at last, That he would put to sea, To scan once more his lighthouse tower On the rock o