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Lost Sounds - The Story of Fog Signals (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Lost Sounds - The Story of Fog Signals (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Loot Price R502
Discovery Miles 5 020
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Lost Sounds visits a number of lighthouses at different times over
the last 130 years to reveal the philanthropic, scientific and
romantic story of the fog signal - how it came about, how the
machinery worked and, for the mariner and the keeper, what it
sounded like! The development of fog signals complemented the
expansion of lighthouse construction worldwide from the last
quarter of the 19th century and represented the attempt to provide
a vital navigation aid to mariners when the beam of light from the
lighthouses lens was obscured by fog. Lost Sounds reveals the
practical development of sound signals from the early percussion
instruments to the later succession of compressed-air sirens and
diaphones through to the last remaining electric emitters. However,
it is much more than that - it is a record of another part of
maritime history.
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