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The Century Co., New York, 1922. Hardcover, 272 pp. First Edition. Possible Ex-Library with some sticker residue on front paste-down and front free end paper and what may have been call numbers rubbed out on spine. NO other other stamps, stickers or library markings are present. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Brown patterned cloth covered boards with gold compass rose emblem on front and spine and lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and city in ink on front paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked with occasional light spotting and soiling and one page has a tear along the top edge that has been very neatly repaired with tape. Great black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. An authoritative look at the development of lighthouses in the United States and, particular, the recent development (as of the early 1920's) of the radio in safe-guarding navigation. [From 1923 Book Review Digest] A readable story of the US light-house service which has under its jurisdiction a sea-coast of 48,000 miles in length and in addition the shore-line of the Great Lakes and other inland waters. Beginning with a description of the lighthouses of the ancients, the author goes on to describe America's first light-houses, and the problem of lighthouse engineering. Chapters follow on developing the light and the mechanism of its control, on various types of light-buoys, on service depots, light-ships and lighthouse tenders, the US coast-guard and steering by radio compass. Contents include: Harbor Protection; Early Lighthouses; America's First Lighthouses; Building the Lighthouse; Developing the Light; A Night in a Lighthouse; The Fog Menace; Language of the Buoys; A Service Depot; Aboard a Lighthouse Tender; Aboard the Light-ship; Guarding the Pacific; Sentinels on the Great Lakes; Our Inland Waters; With the Coast-Guard; Steering by Radio Compass. N° de ref. del artículo 20201118010
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