FACING PAGE |
The 43,000,000 Candle-Power Beams thrown from the Heligoland Lighthouse | Frontispiece |
How the Beachy Head Lighthouse was built | 6 |
Workmen returning by the Aerial Cableway to the Top of Beachy Head | 7 |
The Sanganeb Reef Lighthouse in the Red Sea | 14 |
The Alcatraz Lighthouse under Construction | 15 |
The Alcatraz Lighthouse completed | 15 |
The Thimble Shoals Light | 22 |
Setting the Last Stone of the Beachy Head Lighthouse | 23 |
The Hyperradial Apparatus for the Manora Point Light, Karachi, India | 48 |
First Order Triple Flashing Light of 920 Millimetres Focal Distance for Chilang Lighthouse, China | 49 |
Looking up the Lantern of the Needles Lighthouse | 52 |
Fixed Apparatus of the Fourth Order for Sarawak | 53 |
A Modern Lighthouse Siren Plant | 58 |
The Sirens of the Lizard | 59 |
The Acetylene Fog-Gun | 64 |
The Rattray Head Lighthouse | 65 |
Sule Skerry Light | 65 |
The Eddystone, the Most Famous Lighthouse of England | 76 |
A Thrilling Experience | 77 |
The “Bishop,” the Western Outpost of England | 82 |
The Wolf Rock Lighthouse | 83 |
The Longships Light | 88 |
The Godrevy Light, Scilly Islands | 89 |
The Chicken Rock Lighthouse, off the Isle of Man | 92 |
How the Skerryvore is built | 93 |
The Skerryvore, Scotland’s Most Famous Lighthouse | 102 |
Barra Head Lighthouse, Scotland | 103 |
The Homes of the Keepers of the Skerryvore and Dhu-Heartach Lights | 103 |
The Dhu-Heartach Lighthouse | 110 |
The North Unst, Britain’s most Northerly Lighthouse | 111 |
The North Unst Light | 116 |
Landing Water at the North Unst | 116 |
The Flannen Islands Light-Station | 117 |
Building the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse | 122 |
Building the Fastnet Tower | 123 |
Erecting the Fastnet Lantern | 123 |
The Fastnet, the Outpost of Europe | 128 |
The Lantern of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse | 129 |
The Rothersand Lighthouse | 136 |
The Fourteen-Foot Bank Lighthouse, built on Sand | 137 |
The Heaux de BrÉhat Light | 150 |
Fitting the Lantern of La Jument Light | 151 |
Preparing the Foundations of the Jument Tower |
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