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Southern Lights: The Scottish Contribution to new Zealand'S Lighthouses [Audiobook] download free by Guinevere Nalder

Southern Lights: The Scottish Contribution to new Zealand'S Lighthouses Audiobook download free by Guinevere Nalder
  • Listen audiobook: Southern Lights: The Scottish Contribution to new Zealand'S Lighthouses
  • Author: Guinevere Nalder
  • Release date: 2017/9/25
  • Publisher: WHITTLES PUBLISHING
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9781849951562
  • Rating: 8.74 of 10
  • Votes: 624
  • Review by: Mya Falk
  • Review rating: 8.16 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/19
  • Duration: 2H28M41S in 256 kbps (40 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-21
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, WMA, AIFF, WavPack (compression TAR.BZ2, ZIP, RAR, TBZ, ARJ, DMG, DEB)
  • Total pages original book: 200
  • Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 15M3S (3.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Southern Lights recounts the story of how New Zealand lighthouses were established through the transfer of technology from Scotland to New Zealand over a period of almost 90 years. This resulted in most of New Zealand's lighthouses being fully or partially built using Scottish materials and expertise. The major Scottish contribution was the professional services provided by the firm founded by Robert Stevenson. The firm of David and Thomas Stevenson took on the first commissions and its successor companies over a period of 80 years were Consulting Lighthouse Engineers to the New Zealand Government. They arranged tenders, advised on technology, supervised manufacture and dispatch of lighthouse components and stores, and much more, proving invaluable to the New Zealand Agent-General in London. It was on this basis that in the period 1859 to 1941, 38 major lighthouses were built; 30 of which were constructed between 19865 and 1897. Thirty-three were built using Scottish-designed and built lanterns and apparatus and Scottish-designed lenses, although these were of French or English manufacture.Of the other five, two were eventually replaced by Scottish lighthouses, two were upgraded with Scottish technology and the fifth remains the sole example of English lighthouse design, although in its time was supplied with Scottish equipment. Scotland also supplied trained professionals who manned the lights, designed and administered them.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Ships & Shipping, Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building, Maritime History, Australasian & Pacific History
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 29.51 USD
  • Dimensions: 170x240x15.24mm
  • Weight: 725.75g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Caithness, United Kingdom

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