
Northern Lights
The Age of Scottish Lighthouses
Alison Morrison-Low(Author)
NMSE - Publishing Ltd
Published on 25. October 2010
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-905267-57-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Bell Rock Lighthouse was built by the famous Stevenson engineers off the coast of Angus, Scotland in 1811. To celebrate its bicentenary is this fully illustrated books, which tells the story of Scotland's lighthouses through narrative, objects, charts and photographs. It uses National Museums Scotland's pre-eminent collection of sea-marking material from the Northern Lighthouse Board and also from the Stevenson family. For reasons explained in the book, historic items relating to the building of the earlier Eddystone Lighthouse, located in the English Channel, are also held by the Museum, and John Smeaton's stone-built construction there must be seen as the inspiration for Robert Stevenson's structure on the Bell Rock. A paperback edition (978 1 905267 47 7, GBP17.99) is also available.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Illustrations
colour and black/white
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
1035 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905267-57-6 (9781905267576)
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Person
Dr A.D. Morrison-Low is Principal Curator, History of Scientific Instruments and Photography, Department of Science and Technology, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh.
Content
Foreword Preface The Royal Scottish Society of Arts Introduction: Scottish Lighthouses In the Beginning The Eddystone Scottish Lights Before the Bell Rock Building the Bell Rock Lighthouses in Scotland after the Bell Rock Stevenson Exports and Later Work Modern Times Glossary Family Tree: the Stevenson Family of Engineers Bibliography and References Selective Index