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Elsewhere, many Irish Lighthouses and Lighthouses in the Colonies were fitted with apparatus prepared under the superintendence of Robert Stevenson. He was also an inventor of intermittent and flashing lights, for which he received a gold medal from the King of the Netherlands, as a mark of his Majesty’s approbation. In October 1958 the Dalen light was replaced by a temporary watched light (Notice to Mariners No 22 of 1958 refers) which exhibited one flash of 3 seconds duration every 10 seconds which remained in operation until 6 August 1959 on which date the present light (Notice to Mariners No 11 of 1959 refers), which exhibits one flash every 10 seconds, was re-established. Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.25 (11thed.). pp.907–910.

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Stevenson very much saw himself in the mould of Sir Walter Scott, a storyteller with an ability to transport his readers away from themselves and their circumstances. He took issue with what he saw as the tendency in French realism to dwell on sordidness and ugliness. In "The Lantern-Bearer" (1888) he appears to take Emile Zola to task for failing to seek out nobility in his protagonists. [59] Sound: A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found". Shelf Awareness. November 2, 2018 . Retrieved 2023-02-10. Great-grandson D Alan continued the Stevenson tradition. Most notably his personal research paved the way for an Indian lighthouse authority. In 1929, using radio signals, he and his father Charles invented the Talking Beacon.In "The Day After Tomorrow", appearing in The Contemporary Review (April 1887), [67] [68] Stevenson suggested: "we are all becoming Socialists without knowing it". Legislation "grows authoritative, grows philanthropical, bristles with new duties and new penalties, and casts a spawn of inspectors, who now begin, note-book in hand, to darken the face of England". [69] He is referring to the steady growth in social legislation in Britain since the first of the Conservative-sponsored Factory Acts (which, in 1833, established a professional Factory Inspectorate). Stevenson cautioned that this "new waggon-load of laws" points to a future in which our grandchildren might "taste the pleasures of existence in something far liker an ant-heap that any previous human polity". [70] Yet in reproducing the essay his latter-day libertarian admirers omit his express understanding for the abandonment of Whiggish, classical-liberal notions of laissez faire. "Liberty", Stevenson wrote, "has served us a long while" but like all other virtues "she has taken wages".

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Stevenson College, Edinburgh, named after Robert Stevenson, was founded in 1970. For a good portion of his life, Stevenson lived at 1 Baxter's Place, Edinburgh. In 1985, the building was named “Robert Stevenson House” in his memory. (The name was removed in 2015 because Marriott bought the building to convert it to a hotel.)With his imagination still residing in Scotland and returning to earlier form, Stevenson also wrote Catriona (1893), a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886), continuing the adventures of its hero David Balfour. [93] The work of the firm varied over time and between engineers. In the early period, under the leadership of Robert Stevenson, a much wider variety of projects were taken on. Plans of roads, bridges and railways by the Stevensons are generally from before 1850, perhaps reflecting a shift both in the type of infrastructural development over time and in the interests and specialisms of the family. Plans of water supply, buildings or monuments are often one off projects represented by only a few plans, but come from a whole range of dates throughout the firm's lifetime. Lighthouse, harbour and river work continued at a reasonably steady rate throughout the firm's existence, accounting for the bulk of the work done in any given period.

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Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. [104] Artistic reception [ edit ] Portrait by Henry Walter Barnett in 1893, sent by Stevenson to J. M. BarrieTreasure Island (1883) – his first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure and adventure; has been filmed frequently. In an 1881 letter to W. E. Henley, he provided the earliest-known title, "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys".