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	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Robert Stevenson 1772-1850
		Robert worked hard to qualify himself as an civil engineer, and even as early as 1793 he was known to have been entrusted, at least in part, to the building of the lighthouse on Little Cumbrae on the Frith of Clyde.
		Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1772, the son of Alan Stevenson (a merchant in that city) and Jean Lillie.
		Robert retired in 1843, and his eldest son Alan became Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_robert.htm (314 words)

	BBC - History - Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850)
		Robert's three sons followed him into civil engineering.
		The family's most famous member, however, was Robert's grandson, Robert Louis Stevenson, a reluctant trainee engineer, but a great story-teller.
		Robert Stevenson's father-in-law and step-father were the same person, one Thomas Smith, a tinsmith who invented and manufactured lamp-light reflectors.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/stevenson_robert.shtml (463 words)

	BBC - History - Robert Louis Stevenson dies, 1894
		Born in Edinburgh, in 1850, Stevenson was the son of a famous civil engineer.
		Robert Louis Stevenson published 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.
		BBC - History - Robert Louis Stevenson dies, 1894
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/rl_stevenson.shtml (110 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Novelist and essayist, was born at Edinburgh, the son of Thomas S., a distinguished civil engineer.
		Robert Louis Stevenson Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		His style is singularly fascinating, graceful, various, subtle, and with a charm all its own.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/46 (580 words)

	CliffsNotes::Treasure Island:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in November 1850, the only child of a prosperous middle-class family.
		His father, Thomas, was a civil engineer who specialized in the design and construction of lighthouses, and his mother, Margaret, was the daughter of a well-known clergyman.
		Stevenson’s youthful “dissipation” became much exaggerated in legend, after his fame and death; he was during these years on a strict allowance from his father and could not have afforded the wild life that gossip later attributed to him.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-175,pageNum-1.html (534 words)

	Engineer
		1772 Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer
		1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
		2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/e/engineer.html (534 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson familytree
		Married Margaret in 1844. Alan was a man of great learning, a Civil Engineer with a Doctorate in Law. The letters behind his name were M.A., M.I.C.E.,F.R.S.E.,LL.D
		He is said to have been a brilliant engineer in his youth and it was he who designed the legendary SKERRYVORE lighthouse.
		Alan partnered his brother Thomas in the family lighthouse business but it seems that in his later years he suffered a depressive illness which culminated in a mental breakdown and his death at the age of 58.
	www.taylor2020.freeserve.co.uk /RLS/150018.htm (534 words)

	Welcome to H&S Timbers
		Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) - a civil engineer and father of the author Robert Louis Stevenson - is accredited with the design of the Stevenson Screen, which is still widely used today.
		Stevenson Screens are usually supported by means of a steel stand, which is firmly set in the ground.
		has been the approved supplier of Stevenson Screens to the South African Weather Bureau and other research institutions since 1973.
	www.hstimbers.co.za /stevenson_screens.htm (382 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Robert Stevenson 1772-1850
		It is to Robert Stevenson, however, the credit is mainly due for building up the family business of lighthouse construction and civil engineering, although there was been criticism over the years about exactly whose design was used to built the Bell Rock lighthouse.
		Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1772, the son of Alan Stevenson (a merchant in that city) and Jean Lillie.
		Robert retired in 1843, and his eldest son Alan became Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_robert.htm (382 words)

	Ohio 4-H/youth opportunities/Weather Together
		The standard housing for meteorological thermometers designed by Thomas Stevenson, civil engineer (father of Robert Louis Stevenson).
		Plans and Stevenson Screen prototype constructed by Brian Burley, Worthington, Ohio.
		It consists of a wooden cupboard, with hinged door, mounted on a steel or timber stand, so that its base is about 3 ft 6 in.
	www.ohio4h.org /youth/weather/Stevensonscreen.html (101 words)

	1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2005
		This screen, known as 'a Stevenson screen', was designed by Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a British civil engineer and father of Robert Louis Stevenson.
		The Stevenson screen was first introduced to Australia in the 1880s and was installed everywhere, with a few exceptions, by 1910.
		The use of a standard screen allows temperatures to be compared accurately with those measured in earlier years and at different places.
	www.abs.gov.au /ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/e4d19a717ba99a65ca256f7200832fd6?OpenDocument (522 words)

	STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894) - Online Information article about STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)
		STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894), British essayist, novelist and poet, was the only child of Thomas Stevenson, civil engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella Balfour.
		The personal appearance of Stevenson has often been described: he was tall, extremely thin, dark-haired, restless, compelling attention with the lustre of his wonderful brown eyes.
		Here we find less evidence of sedulous workmanship, yet not infrequently a piercing sweetness, a depth of emotion, a sincere and spontaneous lovableness, which are irresistibly touching and inspiring.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/STEVENSON_ROBERT_LEWIS_BALFOUR.html (522 words)

	Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, a Memorial - CHAPTER VIII
		I, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, advocate of the Scots Bar, author of THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and MORAL EMBLEMS, civil engineer, sole owner and patentee of the palace and plantation known as Vailima, in the island of Upolo, Samoa, a British subject, being in sound mind, and pretty well, I thank you, in mind and body;
		And considering that I, the said Robert Louis Stevenson, have attained the age when we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday of any description;
		After the return of the Ides to their American home, Stevenson "deeded" to Annie his birthday in the following unique document:
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/biography/RobertLouisStevensonaRecordAnEstimateaMemorial/chap8.html (517 words)

	Capgo - History of Temperature
		For example it was realised by Thomas Stevenson (civil engineer and father of Robert Louis Stevenson) that air temperature measurement needed to occur in a space shielded from the sun's radiation and rain.
		Although the mercury thermometer is not as sensitive as the air thermometer, by being sealed it is not affected by the atmospheric pressure.
		Temperatures can now be measured to within about 0.001°C over a wide range, although it is not a simple task.
	www.capgo.com /Resources/InterestStories/TempHistory/TempHistory.html (1093 words)

	Aimhigher: Stevenson College Edinburgh
		Stevenson College Edinburgh is named after the eminent Civil Engineer Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) and commemorates his excellent work as engineer to the Scottish Lighthouse Board (now Northern Lighthouse Board.) He was responsible for the design and building of a system of lighthouses along the Scottish coast including the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
		The main campus of Stevenson College Edinburgh is situated to the west of Edinburgh close to the Gyle Centre, Edinburgh Park and Hermiston Gait Retail Development.
		The college curriculum at Stevenson is divided into seven schools.
	www.aimhigher.ac.uk /universities___colleges___fec/scotland/east_scotland/stevenson_college_edinburgh.cfm?view=print&view=screen& (465 words)

	Saving a Sinking City
		Urbahn Seelye, a joint venture of Urbhan Associates Inc., and Seelye Stevenson Value and Knecth, New York, is the architect/engineer for the project and Lehrer McGovern Bovis, New York, is construction manager.
		The total construction cost of approximately $74 million comprises electrical construction with excavation and other attendant costs of $15 million; mechanical construction, with excavation, etc., $40 million; structural work and piles, $5 million; and civil construction and landscaping, approximately $14 million.
		Executive, Nab Construction Corp., College Point, NY) and Robert J. Breslin, (Proj.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?9700494 (465 words)

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