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 310
OrSTii mm Sand Key, 1851. a Cast-iron Lighthouses.—The first cast-iron lighthouse was erected at Point Morant, Jamaica, in 1842.The tower is formed of 9 tiers of plates 10 ft. high by three-quarters of an inch thick, united bv boltsand flanges on the inside. The plates of each tier have a common…
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