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Discovers the engineering within these coastal icons. Mull of Galloway, improving lighting technology, Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe, Bell Rock, Kinnaird Head, Thomas Stevenson, Fraserburgh, acetylene lamps, Gustav Dalen, optical engineering, reflectors and the Fresnel Lens, identifying lights, Chance Brothers, clockwork mechanism, foghorns, Mull of Galloway lighthouse foghorn and light power, Kelvin diesels and Ally air compressors, Lister diesel, automation and the future of lighthouses, Beachey Head, lighthouse museums, further reading, thanks, reference |