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