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Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation . Photograph of Thomas Stevenson by John Moffat, Edinburgh 1880. ...
A HDR image of a traditional lighthouse For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ...
Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic and Scots1 Government Constitutional monarchy - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II...
Exterior of a Stevenson screen Interior of a Stevenson screen A Stevenson screen is a meteorological screen to shield instruments against precipitation and direct heat radiation from outside sources, while still allowing air to circulate freely around them. ...
Satellite image of Hurricane Hugo with a polar low visible at the top of the image. ...
Background
Well known for his boyish good looks and flamboyant personality, he was a favourite among his male companions. As the youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and David Stevenson, between 1854 and 1886 he designed many lighthouses, with his brother David, and then with David's son David Alan Stevenson. His son was the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow in the engineering of his family. Bust of Robert Stevenson by Samuel Joseph, commissioned 19th July 1824 by the Northern Lighthouse Board to be placed in the library of the Bell Rock Lighthouse in testimony of his distinguished talent and indefatigable zeal in the erection of that lighthouse. ...
Alan Stevenson (born 1807, Edinburgh; died 1865) was a lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. ...
David Stevenson (1815–1886) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering. ...
1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
David Alan Stevenson (born 1854, Edinburgh; died 1938) was a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland. ...
Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...
Thomas Stevenson was a devout and regular attender at St. Stephen's Church in St Stephen's Place, Silvermills, at the north end of St Vincent Street, Edinburgh. Silvermills once an ancient village, is today part of the Edinburgh New Town. ...
He was involved in regrettable efforts to rubbish the inventions of John Wigham. [1]
Lighthouses designed by Thomas Stevenson The Outer Skerries, often called the Out Skerries or just The Skerries (although this may lead to confusion with the Ve Skerries), are a island group in Shetland, Scotland. ...
The Muckle Flugga lighthouse. ...
Davaar Island is located in Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. ...
Rona, sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona, is a small island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, north of Raasay and north east of Skye. ...
The village of Kyleakin (Scottish Gaelic: Caol Acain) is situated on the E coast of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, opposite the NW Scottish mainland town of Kyle of Lochalsh. ...
Bressay ( From Old Norse meaning Broad Sound Island) is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of around 400 people. ...
Fladda is one of the Slate Islands, off the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. ...
St Abbs Head is a rocky promonotory at the village of St. ...
The Butt of Lewisis in the area of Ness. ...
Holborn Head is a headland on the north-facing Atlantic coast of Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. ...
The Monach Islands, also known as Heisker (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Heisgeir), are an island group west of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. ...
Auskerry (population 5 (2001 census)) is a small island in the east of the Orkney Islands group in Scotland. ...
Dubh Artach is a remote skerry off the west coast of Scotland. ...
Turnberry is a golf resort on the Atlantic Coast of Scotland. ...
Chicken Rock (Carrick ny Kirkey in Manx, or yn Chiggin in Ned Beg Hom Ruy) is the southernmost island administered by the Isle of Man. ...
Lindisfarne Castle Lindisfarne (grid reference NU125421, ), also called Holy Island (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England, which is connected to the mainland of Northumberland by a causeway and is cut off twice a day by tides — something well described by Sir Walter...
Fidra Fidra is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, off eastern Scotland. ...
The Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, located on Ailsa Craig, an island in the Firth of Clyde, just offshore from Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland, was completed in 1886, the construction being overseen by Thomas and David Stevenson. ...
See also Richard Henry Brunton (December 26, 1841 - April 24, 1901) from Scotland was the so-called Father of Japanese lighthouses. He was born in the Coastguard House (now 11 Marine Terrace) at Muchalls, Fetteresso in Kincardineshire. ...
External links - Eilean Bàn - Kyleakin Lighthouse
- 'Lighthouse Library' of the Northern Lighthouse Board
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