| 词条 | Thomas Stevenson |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Thomas Stevenson | honorific_suffix = | image = ThomasStevenson.jpg | alt = | caption = Thomas Stevenson, 1880. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1818|7|22}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1887|5|8|1818|7|22}} | death_place = Edinburgh | nationality = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Lighthouse engineer | employer = Northern Lighthouse Board | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | influences = | influenced = | home_town = Edinburgh | salary = | net_worth = | height = | weight = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | criminal_charge = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = {{marriage|Maggie Balfour|1848}} | partner = | children = Robert Louis Stevenson | parents = Robert Stevenson (father) Jean Smith (mother) | relatives = David Stevenson (brother) Alan Stevenson (brother) | callsign = | awards = | signature = Signature of Thomas Stevenson.jpg | signature_alt = | signature_size = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | website = | footnotes = | box_width = }} Thomas Stevenson PRSE MInstCE FRSSA FSAScot (22 July 1818 – 8 May 1887) was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, 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. He served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (1859–60), as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1884-86), and was a co-founder of the Scottish Meteorological Society.[1] BackgroundHe was born at 2 Baxters Place[2] in Edinburgh, on 22 July 1818, the youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and his wife (and step-sister) Jean Smith. He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Thomas Stevenson was a devout and regular attendee at St. Stephen's Church in Stockbridge, at the north end of St Vincent Street, Edinburgh. He was involved in regrettable efforts to rubbish the inventions of John Richardson Wigham.[3] From at least 1860 he lived at 17 Heriot Row, a large Georgian terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's New Town.[4] In 1869, as a successful experiment into using the newly invented electric light for lighthouses, Stevenson had an underwater cable installed from the eastern part of Granton Harbour, and a light on the end of the Trinity Chain Pier was controlled from half a mile away by an operator on the harbour.[5][6] He examined wind and wave effects, and his analysis [7] is the first quantitative discussion of wave height as a (square root) function of fetch. His paper [8] is one of the first quantitative studies of wind speeds in the planetary boundary layer. Motivated by practical applications, these are fundamental contributions. He designed the Stevenson screen as a shelter to shield meteorological instruments, and this has been widely adopted. He died at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh on 8 May 1887 and is buried in the Stevenson family vault in New Calton Cemetery. The vault lies midway along the eastern wall. FamilyHe was 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. He married Margaret Isabella "Maggie" Balfour in 1848, daughter of Rev Lewis Balfour. Their son was the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow the engineering interests of his family. [9] His wife's younger brother, James Melville Balfour (i.e. his brother-in-law), trained under D. & T. Stevenson and then emigrated to New Zealand, where he was first the marine engineer for Otago Province before he appointed Colonial Marine Engineer.[9][10] Lighthouses designed by Thomas Stevenson{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
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References1. ^{{cite book |last1 = Waterston |first1 = Charles D |last2 = Macmillan Shearer |first2 = A |title = Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index |url = http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp2.pdf |accessdate = 31 December 2010 |volume = II |date = July 2006 |publisher = The Royal Society of Edinburgh |location = Edinburgh |isbn = 978-0-902198-84-5 |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113303/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp2.pdf |archivedate = 4 October 2006 |df = dmy-all}} 2. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1818 3. ^Tyndall A Story of Lighthouses page 827 4. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1860 5. ^{{cite book|title=The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1869|date=28 March 2013|publisher=Cambridge Library Collection|pages=614–615}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Stevenson|first=Thomas|title=Lighthouse Construction and Illumination|date=9 April 2009|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-1103900954|pages=165–166}} 7. ^ Stevenson, T. The Design and Construction of Harbors: A Treatise on Maritime Engineering, seconded. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 8. ^Stevenson, T. (1880) Report on Simultaneous Observations of the Force of Wind at Different Heights above the Ground, Journal of the Scottish Meteorological Society, LI-LIV, pp.103–107 9. ^1 {{cite news|title=The Late Mr Balfour|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18691229.2.12|accessdate=4 January 2015|work=The Star|issue=503|date=29 December 1869|page=3}} 10. ^{{cite web | first1=Helen | last1=Beaglehole | url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/document/6653/james-balfours-notes | title=Lighthouses - A national system | publisher=The Encyclopedia of New Zealand | date=9 July 2013 | accessdate=4 January 2015}} External links
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