The story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone lighthouse (Registro nro. 117492)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | TC |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Anonymous |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone lighthouse |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-08-30 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Al Haines |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone lighthouse" by Anonymous is a historical/biographical account written in the early 20th century. It traces the development of lighthouse technology and focuses on the perilous Eddystone reef, highlighting John Smeaton’s pioneering stone lighthouse and the earlier, ill-fated towers by Henry Winstanley and John Rudyerd. The work blends accessible engineering history with a concise life of Smeaton, emphasizing practical ingenuity, perseverance, and public service. The opening of the book surveys lighthouses from antiquity—the Pharos of Alexandria, Roman beacons at Dover, and early English pitch-pot signals—through the rise of organized coastal lighting under Trinity House and the shortcomings of primitive fires and braziers. It then shifts to the Eddystone reef’s location and danger, recounting Winstanley’s ornate wooden tower swept away in a great storm, and Rudyerd’s elegant timber-and-granite structure destroyed by fire. Enter Smeaton, who designs a heavier, all-stone, oak-trunk-shaped tower, houses a work crew on a nearby vessel, and builds with dovetailed granite, marble center plugs, iron cramps, and vaulted rooms—culminating in a durable light that has stood against Atlantic gales. Interwoven are vivid set pieces: the hazards of working windows of calm, a near-fatal charcoal fume incident, and the triumphant lighting of the lantern. The section then begins Smeaton’s life story—his Yorkshire boyhood of mechanical tinkering, turn to instrument-making in London, methodical studies, Royal Society work, a learning trip to the Low Countries, and the persistent, weather-thwarted surveys that preceded construction—establishing both the technical foundations and character that drive the narrative forward. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1900 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Smeaton, John, 1724-1792 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Lighthouses |
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| Uncontrolled term | Eddystone Lighthouse (England) |
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| Uncontrolled term | Engineers -- England -- Biography |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76767">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76767</a> |
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