Year: 2013 Language: english Author: Ray Jones Genre: Encyclopedia Publisher: Guilford Edition: 2nd ISBN: 978-0-7627-8670-1 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 299 Description: The Lighthouse Encyclopedia is a reference book for the lighthouses. The volume, along with color and vintage photos, contains informations about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. The reader can see how the appearance or location of lights has changed over time, learn about the birth of Fresnel lenses or about breakwater lights, caissons, lightships, mercury baths, daymarks and clamshell lenses. A detailed index of more than 150 lighthouses around the world offers quick and easy access to basic information: height, age, elevation, optic type and status for every listed lighthouse. An appendix listing lighthouse groups by nation, in order to make it easy to visit them and their museums.
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The Lighthouse Encyclopedia
Language: english
Author: Ray Jones
Genre: Encyclopedia
Publisher: Guilford
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 978-0-7627-8670-1
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 299
Description: The Lighthouse Encyclopedia is a reference book for the lighthouses. The volume, along with color and vintage photos, contains informations about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. The reader can see how the appearance or location of lights has changed over time, learn about the birth of Fresnel lenses or about breakwater lights, caissons, lightships, mercury baths, daymarks and clamshell lenses. A detailed index of more than 150 lighthouses around the world offers quick and easy access to basic information: height, age, elevation, optic type and status for every listed lighthouse. An appendix listing lighthouse groups by nation, in order to make it easy to visit them and their museums.
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