  | CHAPTER I. | | EARLY LIFE. | | PAGE | | Birth—Mr. Smith’s improvements in Lighthouse illumination—Origin of the Scottish Lighthouse Board—Acts as Assistant to their Engineer—Student at Andersonian Institution, Glasgow, and University of Edinburgh—Succeeds Mr. Smith as Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board—Tour of inspection of English lights in 1801—Is taken for a French spy | 1 | | CHAPTER II. | | BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE. | | Resolves to practise as a Civil Engineer—Journals—Reports—Design for the Bell Rock Lighthouse—Improvements on Smeaton’s design—Application to Parliament for Act in 1802—Act of Parliament passed in 1806—Works begun in 1807—Tender breaks adrift—Life in the floating light—Boating between the lightship and the rock—Anxiety for workmen—Sunday work—Life in the Barrack or Beacon—Visits the Eddystone in 1813 and 1818—Sir Walter Scott’s visit to the Bell Rock | 12 | | CHAPTER III. | | LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION. | | Early modes of illumination—Facet reflectors and lamps—Silvered copper reflectors and Argand lamps—Isle of May coal light—Improvements in catoptric lights—Distinctions for lighthouses invented by Mr. Stevenson, viz., flashing, intermittent, and double lights—Floating light lantern—Lighting of stage of Covent Garden Theatre—Dioptric system of lighthouse illumination | 48 | | CHAPTER IV. | | ROADS. | | Early roads and road-making—Edgeworth and M’Adam’s systems of roads—Stevenson’s system of roads—Cast iron and stone tracks | 64 | | CHAPTER V. | | IMPROVEMENT OF EDINBURGH. | | Design for approaches to Edinburgh from the East by Regent and London Roads, and opening up access to the Calton Hill—Sites for the new Jail and Court of Justiciary, and buildings in Waterloo Place—Regent Bridge—Feuing Plan for Eastern District of Edinburgh—Improvement of accesses to Edinburgh from the West and North, and from Granton—Removal of old “Tolbooth” Prison—Removal of University Buildings | 74 | | CHAPTER VI. | | FERRIES. | | Ferry Engineering—Extracts from Report on the Tay Ferries—Reports on various Ferries—Orkney and Shetland Ferry, etc. | 101 | | CHAPTER VII. | | RAILWAYS. | | Canals and Railways on one level—Haulage on Railways—Railways in Scotland—Edinburgh and Midlothian, Stockton and Darlington, and Edinburgh and London Railways—Uniform gauge proposed—Notes on Railways for the Highland and Agricultural Society—Letter from George Stephenson | 111 | | CHAPTER VIII. | | HARBOURS AND RIVERS | 130 | | CHAPTER IX. | | PRESERVATION OF TIMBER | 155 | | CHAPTER X. | | BRIDGES. | | Marykirk, Annan, Stirling, and Hutcheson stone bridges—High-level bridge for Newcastle—Timber bridge of built planks—Winch Chain Bridge—American bridges of suspension—Runcorn Bridge—Menai Chain Bridge—New form of suspension bridge | 160 | | CHAPTER XI. | | WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE | 168 | | CHAPTER XII. | | CARR ROCK BEACON | 177 | | CHAPTER XIII. | | CRANES | 181 | | CHAPTER XIV. | | FISHERIES | 184 | | CHAPTER XV. | | MARINE SURVEYING | 196 | | CHAPTER XVI. | | CONTRIBUTIONS ON ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. | | Contributions to EncyclopÆdia Britannica and Edinburgh EncyclopÆdia—The alveus or bed of the German ocean—Sectio planography—Wasting effects of the sea at the Mersey and Dee—Density of fresh and salt water—The Hydrophore | 203 | | CHAPTER XVII. | | EXTRACTS FROM EARLY REPORTS. | | Wide range of subjects on which Mr. Stevenson gave advice—Reports on ruins of Aberbrothock Abbey—St. Magnus Cathedral, and Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall—St. Andrews Cathedral—Montrose Church Spire—Melville Monument, Edinburgh—Lipping of joints of masonry with cement—Provision for flood waters in bridges—Hydraulic mortar—Protection of foreshores—Cycloidal sea wall—Checking drift sand—Night signal lamps—Cause of heavy seas in Irish Channel—Sea routes across Irish Channel—Build of Ships—Prospective increase of population—Tidal scour—Unscrewing of bolts by the waves—Cement Rubble cofferdams—Buoyage system—Observations on fog signals—Regulations for steam vessels—Notes on shipwrecks | 236 | | CHAPTER XVIII.
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