Modern History
Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse
Alan Stevenson · narrated by Juniper
2026
12h 58m
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Alan Stevenson, of the famous lighthouse-building family, describes the raising of the Skerryvore, the tallest and finest of Scotland's rock lighthouses. He details the immense struggle to build a tower on a wave-swept reef. Engineering drama from the dynasty that lit the coasts.
Inside this audiobook
30 chapters
- 1PREFACE.3m
- 2PART FIRST. ACCOUNT OF THE SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE.19m
- 3CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHIC NOTICE OF THE SKERRYVORE ROCK.30m
- 4CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS AND WORKS, INCLUDING SURVEY OF THE ROCKS, AND OPENING OF QUARRIES, FROM 1834 to 1837.17m
- 5CHAPTER III. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTHOUSE TOWERS.41m
- 6Chapter 69m
- 7CHAPTER IV. OPERATIONS OF 1838.1h 1m
- 8Chapter 812m
- 9CHAPTER V. OPERATIONS OF 1839.1h 8m
- 10CHAPTER VI. OPERATIONS OF 1840.24m
- 11CHAPTER VII. OPERATIONS OF 1841.21m
- 12CHAPTER VIII. OPERATIONS OF 1842.12m
- 13CHAPTER IX. CONCLUDING OPERATIONS AND EXHIBITION OF THE LIGHT.22m
- 14PART SECOND. NOTES ON THE ILLUMINATION OF LIGHTHOUSES, WITH SHORT NOTICES OF THEIR EARLY HISTORY.53m
- 15Chapter 1513m
- 16CATOPTRIC[39] SYSTEM OF LIGHTS.42m
- 17Chapter 1731m
- 18DIOPTRIC[50] SYSTEM OF LIGHTS.35m
- 19Chapter 1938m
- 20Chapter 2037m
- 21Chapter 2145m
- 22Chapter 2217m
- 23VARIOUS GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS CONNECTED WITH LIGHTHOUSES.38m
- 24Chapter 2423m
- 25APPENDIX, No. II. NOTES ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PARABOLOÏDAL REFLECTORS, from Information furnished by Mr James Murdoch, of the Northern Lights Service.11m
- 26APPENDIX, No. III. NOTES ON THE GRINDING OF THE VARIOUS PIECES COMPOSING THE INSTRUMENTS USED IN DIOPTRIC LIGHTHOUSES, CHIEFLY FROM NOTES FURNISHED BY M. THEODORE LETOURNEAU OF PARIS.16m
- 27APPENDIX, No. V. NOTICE TO MARINERS.—SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE.4m
- 28APPENDIX, No. VII. EXCERPTS FROM AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS UPON THE FORCE OF THE WAVES OF THE ATLANTIC AND GERMAN OCEANS. By Thomas Stevenson, F.R.S.E., Civil-Engineer, Edinburgh. (From the Transactio11m
- 29APPENDIX, No. IX. REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES, FOR THE YEAR 1846; WITH APPENDICES. By Alexander Cuningham, W.S., Secretary to the Board.9m
- 30APPENDIX, No. X. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LIGHT-KEEPERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES.16m
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