Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10862

    Buoys and lights

    Date
    1823
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    24758
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 253mm
    width (print): 305mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Six figures of maritime safety devices including chained buoys with bells and lighthouse illuminations with bells and gongs.

    Plate 4 from Saggio di osservazioni sui mezzi atti a migliorare la construzione e l'illuminazione dei Faro con appendice sull' illuminazione dei Fari col gas by Giovanni Aldini (Milan, 1823).

    Not signed. The plate has an accompanying descriptive key. Two scales in ‘Paris feet’.

    Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834) Italian physicist, is best-known for his experiments in galvanism but was also a pioneer in the field of lighthouse engineering.
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