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This illustrated text conveys the romance and beauty of lighthouses and beacons while explaining the development of the forms, materials, architecture and engineering of their structure: wood, masonry, cast-iron plate, on- and off-shore skeletal, caisson and reinforced concrete.Wermiel, Sara E. is the author of 'Lighthouses Norton/library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering' with ISBN 9780393731668 and ISBN 0393731669.
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