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Lighthouses Scramble Squares For many centuries, lighthouses have aided navigation by warning mariners of coastal hazards and by guiding ships to port. Having become in the 20th Century more picturesque and romantic architectural exclamation marks to nature s awesome beauty and power than navigational necessities, often on desolate coasts, lighthouses are now cultural symbols of solitude, the rugged seafaring life and of technological development. The world s first lighthouse, The Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, was built by Sostratus for the Macedonian ruler Ptolemy in the 3rd Century BC and at 450 feet high, topped by a container of fire for light, was one of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World. After guiding mariners for more than 1,500 years, The Pharos of Alexandria was finally destroyed by an earthquake in the 14th Century. Although there is no evidence that another of the Seven Wonders, the Colossus of Rhodes, was intended as a lighthouse, myths persist that this enormous statue in Ancient Greece at the time of the Roman Empire held a cauldron of fire aloft in the palm of one hand and had fires blazing from both of its eyes. In 1812, Winslow Lewis demonstrated his patented Argand lamp and parabolic reflector at the Boston Harbor Lighthouse for U.S. government officials, and at the urging of Boston Customs Collector Henry Dearborn and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, Congress provided $60,000 for the purchase of Lewis patent, the installation of the Argand light in all U.S. lighthouses and the maintenance of these lights for seven years. Lewis installed his Argand lamp in all but nine lighthouses before the British invasion of the War of 1812 and finished the remaining installations in 1815. According to lighthouse historians and his own nephew, Lewis had, in fact, copied his invention from the system in use at the South Stack Lighthouse in England, a system which had been abandoned by all other British lighthouses. In 1852 the newly esta
A beacon of hope in a storm: four historic lighthouses light the way for puzzle solvers in this version of Scramble Squares. Easy to Play, but Hard to Solve is the motto for this deceptively simple-looking puzzle series. By the time you've become addicted and find yourself unable to solve the thing, you'll realize it's not so much a motto as a warning. Nine colorfully illustrated cardboard 4-by-4-inch squares depict various unfinished images (the Boston Harbor Lighthouse; the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Ontario, Canada's Goderich Lighthouse; and Oregon's Yaquina Head Lighthouse) along their edges. The images must be matched and the nine squares arranged in a larger square. An ingenious, elegantly executed puzzle idea, Scramble Squares will have you simultaneously blessing and cursing its inventor. --Claire Dederer
Features
1) Easy to play, hard to solve!
2) Contains 9 pieces
Specification
Binding : Toy
Brand : B.Dazzle
EAN : 0783350100476
Label : B.Dazzle
Manufacturer : B.Dazzle
ManufacturerMaximumAge : 99.00 years
Model : 10047
PackageDimensions_Weight : 0.25 pounds
PackageDimensions : L:10.50 X W:10.30 X H:0.40
ProductGroup : Toy
ProductTypeName : TOYS_AND_GAMES
Publisher : B.Dazzle
Studio : B.Dazzle
Title : Scramble Squares: Lighthouses
Lighthouses Scramble Squares For many centuries, lighthouses have aided navigation by warning mariners of coastal hazards and by guiding ships to port. Having become in the 20th Century more picturesque and romantic architectural exclamation marks to nature s awesome beauty and power than navigational necessities, often on desolate coasts, lighthouses are now cultural symbols of solitude, the rugged seafaring life and of technological development. The world s first lighthouse, The Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, was built by Sostratus for the Macedonian ruler Ptolemy in the 3rd Century BC and at 450 feet high, topped by a container of fire for light, was one of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World. After guiding mariners for more than 1,500 years, The Pharos of Alexandria was finally destroyed by an earthquake in the 14th Century. Although there is no evidence that another of the Seven Wonders, the Colossus of Rhodes, was intended as a lighthouse, myths persist that this enormous statue in Ancient Greece at the time of the Roman Empire held a cauldron of fire aloft in the palm of one hand and had fires blazing from both of its eyes. In 1812, Winslow Lewis demonstrated his patented Argand lamp and parabolic reflector at the Boston Harbor Lighthouse for U.S. government officials, and at the urging of Boston Customs Collector Henry Dearborn and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, Congress provided $60,000 for the purchase of Lewis patent, the installation of the Argand light in all U.S. lighthouses and the maintenance of these lights for seven years. Lewis installed his Argand lamp in all but nine lighthouses before the British invasion of the War of 1812 and finished the remaining installations in 1815. According to lighthouse historians and his own nephew, Lewis had, in fact, copied his invention from the system in use at the South Stack Lighthouse in England, a system which had been abandoned by all other British lighthouses. In 1852 the newly esta
A beacon of hope in a storm: four historic lighthouses light the way for puzzle solvers in this version of Scramble Squares. Easy to Play, but Hard to Solve is the motto for this deceptively simple-looking puzzle series. By the time you've become addicted and find yourself unable to solve the thing, you'll realize it's not so much a motto as a warning. Nine colorfully illustrated cardboard 4-by-4-inch squares depict various unfinished images (the Boston Harbor Lighthouse; the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Ontario, Canada's Goderich Lighthouse; and Oregon's Yaquina Head Lighthouse) along their edges. The images must be matched and the nine squares arranged in a larger square. An ingenious, elegantly executed puzzle idea, Scramble Squares will have you simultaneously blessing and cursing its inventor. --Claire Dederer
Features
1) Easy to play, hard to solve!
2) Contains 9 pieces
Specification
Binding : Toy
Brand : B.Dazzle
EAN : 0783350100476
Label : B.Dazzle
Manufacturer : B.Dazzle
ManufacturerMaximumAge : 99.00 years
Model : 10047
PackageDimensions_Weight : 0.25 pounds
PackageDimensions : L:10.50 X W:10.30 X H:0.40
ProductGroup : Toy
ProductTypeName : TOYS_AND_GAMES
Publisher : B.Dazzle
Studio : B.Dazzle
Title : Scramble Squares: Lighthouses
