Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2017
Date 14-Apr
Volume 218
Issue 4,558
Page 586
Category Exhibition
Part
Title The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses and other lighthouses
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes 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