David Stevenson

PREFACE

CONTENTS.

LIST OF PLATES.

CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. 1772 - 1798.

CHAPTER II. BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE. 1798 - 1811.

CHAPTER III. LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION. 1801 - 1843.

CHAPTER IV. ROADS. 1798 - 1835.

CHAPTER V. IMPROVEMENT OF EDINBURGH. 1812 - 1834.

CHAPTER VI. FERRIES.

CHAPTER VII. RAILWAYS. 1812 - 1826.

CHAPTER VIII. HARBOURS AND RIVERS. 1811 - 1843.

CHAPTER IX. PRESERVATION OF TIMBER. 1808 - 1843.

CHAPTER X. BRIDGES. 1811 - 1833.

CHAPTER XI. WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

CHAPTER XII. CARR ROCK BEACON. 1810 - 1821.

CHAPTER XIII. CRANES.

CHAPTER XIV. FISHERIES.

CHAPTER XV. MARINE SURVEYING.

CHAPTER XVI. CONTRIBUTIONS ON ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS.

CHAPTER XVII. EXTRACTS FROM EARLY REPORTS.

CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECT OF MR. STEVENSON'S LIFE.

APPENDIX. THE INCHCAPE ROCK.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note
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LIFE OF ROBERT STEVENSON.

Edinburgh University Press:
THOMAS AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.

LIFE
OF
ROBERT STEVENSON

CIVIL ENGINEER

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
FELLOW OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY
OF SCOTTISH ANTIQUARIES, OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY
SOCIETY, AND OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

ENGINEER TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES AND TO
THE CONVENTION OF ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND, ETC.

BY
DAVID STEVENSON

CIVIL ENGINEER

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH;
MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, ETC.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH
E. AND F. N. SPON, LONDON AND NEW YORK
1878.