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Scotland's Bell Rock Lighthouse —An Impossible Accomplishment
https://soundcloud.com/the-sun-also-rises-trumpet-radio/scotlands-bell-rock-lighthouse-an-impossible-accomplishment ^ | 28 Feb 2018

Posted on 02/28/2018 8:49:33 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9

By the beginning of the 1800s, Bell Rock in Scotland’s Firth of Forth was responsible for wrecking numerous ships each year. In just one of such wrecks, 491 sailors were killed. It was clear to everyone that sailors needed to be warned about Bell Rock. But since the Rock was 11 miles from shore, and submerged by the sea for all but two hours a day, most all the experts believed it would be impossible to construct a to build a lighthouse there. For Robert Stevenson, the challenge of building a lighthouse on Bell Rock—in order to improve his corner of the world—would become an obsession.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bellrock; engineeringfeats; firthofforth

1 posted on 02/28/2018 8:49:33 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
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To: Thistooshallpass9

I believe that’s where the screw-pile was first used.

CC


2 posted on 02/28/2018 8:52:08 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Is that like a cluster.....?


3 posted on 02/28/2018 9:00:15 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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4 posted on 02/28/2018 9:04:38 AM PST by deadrock
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To: BenLurkin
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5 posted on 02/28/2018 9:04:56 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Very interesting. I didn’t realize that. One fascinating bit of trivia is that the Robert Stevenson who built the lighthouse was the grand father of Robert Louis Stevenson.


6 posted on 02/28/2018 9:07:49 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
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To: deadrock

What is this place? I don’t think that is Bell Rock.


7 posted on 02/28/2018 9:08:36 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
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Was there anything Scot engineers could not accomplish, once they set their minds to it?

I knew a family who had lived in the UK for many years. Father, a facilities engineer, worked on a number of DOD contracts. His kids received primary education in England, then they moved to support a facility in Scotland.

He related that in the parent-teacher conference after the first semester in Scottish schools, the headmistress told him that the sasenach schools had shortchanged his children. They had to take remedial courses to reach Scottish educational standards.


8 posted on 02/28/2018 9:11:19 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: Thistooshallpass9

If you go to save the image, you get: “Old Photograph Bass Rock Firth Of Forth Scotland.jpg”


9 posted on 02/28/2018 9:13:18 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Thistooshallpass9
This is the Bell Rock lighthouse, not the above.


10 posted on 02/28/2018 9:14:05 AM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: AnalogReigns

Ok yeah, that is what I had seen in other photos of it. Appreciate your posting that.


11 posted on 02/28/2018 9:15:23 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
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12 posted on 02/28/2018 9:15:59 AM PST by blam
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To: Thistooshallpass9

That is The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass, is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth. It’s on of a chain of volcanic plugs running in an east - west line across the ‘waist’ of Scotland.


13 posted on 02/28/2018 9:16:08 AM PST by jimtorr
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14 posted on 02/28/2018 9:16:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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This fellow carried on the tradition of excellent Scottish engineers into the future.
15 posted on 02/28/2018 9:27:56 AM PST by Cecily
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, but British.

CC


16 posted on 02/28/2018 9:30:47 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: Cecily

I have two old boilers in one of my buildings which the nameplate labels as “Scotch Generators”.

If those two 300 HP boilers are generating Scotch, none of us will ever be sober!


17 posted on 02/28/2018 10:17:22 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Thistooshallpass9

Sorry about that.

18 posted on 02/28/2018 10:23:40 AM PST by deadrock
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To: jimtorr

Never heard it referred to as the “waist” of Scotland, but it makes perfect sense.
Tthe tallest mountain in the UK is at the west end of that waist, near fort something or other. It’s where I proposed to my wife!


19 posted on 02/28/2018 10:35:00 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: DannyTN

Riding out a gale in that would put some grey in your hair.


20 posted on 02/28/2018 11:28:14 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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