The North British Review, Volumen31W.P. Kennedy, 1859 |
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... LIGHTHOUSES , LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS The Report of the Evidence and other Proceedings in Par- liament respecting the Invention of the Life - Boat . By Henry Greathead , of South Shields . London , 1804 . Shipwreck Investigated . By Henry ...
... LIGHTHOUSES , LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS The Report of the Evidence and other Proceedings in Par- liament respecting the Invention of the Life - Boat . By Henry Greathead , of South Shields . London , 1804 . Shipwreck Investigated . By Henry ...
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... Refracted Beams . By DAVID BREWSTER , LL.D. , F.R.S. In the Edinburgh Encyclopædia , vol . v . , p . 140 , 143. Edin . 1812 . Value of Inventions for Saving Life . * 493 15. 492 Life - Boats - Lightening Conductors - Lighthouses .
... Refracted Beams . By DAVID BREWSTER , LL.D. , F.R.S. In the Edinburgh Encyclopædia , vol . v . , p . 140 , 143. Edin . 1812 . Value of Inventions for Saving Life . * 493 15. 492 Life - Boats - Lightening Conductors - Lighthouses .
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... Lighthouses . Aug. 1834 . 20. Review of the Parliamentary Report on Lighthouses . Edin . Review , vol . lxi . , p . 221. Jan. 1835. ( By Sir DAVID BREWSTER . ) 21. Papers on the Comparative Merits of the Catoptric and Diop- tric Lights ...
... Lighthouses . Aug. 1834 . 20. Review of the Parliamentary Report on Lighthouses . Edin . Review , vol . lxi . , p . 221. Jan. 1835. ( By Sir DAVID BREWSTER . ) 21. Papers on the Comparative Merits of the Catoptric and Diop- tric Lights ...
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... lighthouse or the uncertainty of its beams , must be gathered from those painful records which annually chronicle our disasters at sea . In contrasting the fate of the thousands who are annually lost at sea with the more numerous ...
... lighthouse or the uncertainty of its beams , must be gathered from those painful records which annually chronicle our disasters at sea . In contrasting the fate of the thousands who are annually lost at sea with the more numerous ...
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... lighthouses has been the cause of the loss . It would be difficult to gratify this desire ; but the Life - boat Institution has made great exertions to supply this information by an annual register of shipwrecks on the coasts and in the ...
... lighthouses has been the cause of the loss . It would be difficult to gratify this desire ; but the Life - boat Institution has made great exertions to supply this information by an annual register of shipwrecks on the coasts and in the ...
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