Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Queensland's Timber and Iron Lighthouses: 19th Century Colonial Innovation
- In
- Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 89-96
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.573393406142609
- Description
Paper presented at the Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference (3rd: 2009 : Dunedin).
- Abstract
The geography, resources and economic circumstances of the colony of Queensland fostered the local design and construction of two related types of composite timber-framed, iron-clad lighthouse towers in Queensland from the 1870s - an early type clad with riveted wrought iron plating, and a later type clad with corrugated galvanised iron. This paper gives a short historical account of their design and construction, outlines the range of towers and how they have been changed. The paper concludes with an assessment of the success and influence of the type, and a table of major 19th century lighthouses.
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- '3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2009 : Dunedin)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 8 (1) (2010), 96, https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/8/1. Details