It is applied in the construction and management of roads, bridges, railroads, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, docks and storehouses, for the convenience of internal intercourse and exchange; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses; and in the navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce.
Thomas Roberts, a banker whose efforts to save the black-and-white-striped Fire Island Lighthouse in the early 1980s became a model for scores of lighthouse preservation campaigns around the country and yielded a popular tourist destination, died on Monday at his home in Bay Shore, N.Y.
Built in 1870 on the site of a previous structure, it stands 208 feet (63 metres) high and is the tallest masonry lighthouse in the country.
The theater is one of the 200 historic structures that are on Sandy Hook, including the lighthouse, which was built in 1764 and is the oldest standing lighthouse in the country.
You had the sense of Mr. Bennett, poised, calm and good-humored, as a lighthouse in the middle of a churning musical sea, illuminating the way for all approaching ships.
It turned out to be an enlightened suggestion.Douglass's method of building was one invented by his father, Nicholas, on another lighthouse in the 1860s (and used long afterwards in British lighthouses).
Skerryvore is another remote lighthouse in the vicinity and at a height of 48 m it is the tallest in Scotland.
With 151 steps to the top it would be the tallest and heaviest lighthouse yet built anywhere in the modern world, and today it is still the tallest lighthouse in the United Kingdom.
In 1913 the Helgoland Lighthouse in the North Sea off Germany was equipped with arc lamps and searchlight mirrors to give a light of 38 million candlepower, the most powerful lighthouse in the world at that time.
The lighthouse in the park was designed by 19th cen.
