Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 308
over all obstacles, andthe work was finished in 1759. After standing for 120 years, a monument of the skill of Us designerand builder, and an example to all engineers, owing to defects discovered in its foundation rock, itsreconstruction was undertaken, and at the present time (1879) is in… … 296 LIGHTHOUSES, CONSTRUCTION OF. Tay. The part of the rock on which the lighthouse is built is 12 ft. below high water of springtides, the rise of these tides being 16 ft. The structure, shown in section in Fig, 2809, is of sand-stone, the outer casing of the lowest 30 ft. being of granite. The…
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