A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830

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Thomas Telford, 2002 - 897 pages
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Intended as a valuable biographical reference work on the lives, works and careers of individuals engaged in the practice of civil engineering, this volume looks specifically at those whose careers began before 1830. Beginning with what little is known of the lives of engineers such as John Trew who practised in the Tudor period, the background, training and achievements of engineers over the following 250 years are described by specialist authors, many of whom have spent a lifetime researching the history of civil engineering. This book will be of particular interest to historians of all disciplines and of great value to engineers involved in restoration work for whom an authoritative source of information on the engineers who designed public works over 300 years will be available for the first time.
 

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Biographical dictionary 1
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Appendix I Wages costs salaries and inflation
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Index of places
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Page xvii - Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer...
Page 48 - Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds ; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in these parts ; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coales from the pits to the stathes to the river, &c. Within few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse.
Page 48 - Master Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds; who brought with him many rare engines, not known then in these parts — as, the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale, rare engines to draw water out of the pits, wagons with one horse, to carry down coales from the pits to the stathes to the river. * * * In a few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his lighthorse.
Page 175 - Shewing likewise the principal Works and Operations of the British Forces, under the Command of Major General Wolfe, during the siege of that Place in 1759.
Page 259 - I shall proceed on the principle of assisting Nature when she cannot do her own work, by removing the stones and hard gravel from the bottom of the river where it is shallow, and by contracting the channel where it is now too wide.
Page 437 - A zealous promoter of the Arts and Sciences, eminently distinguished as an engineer for mathematical accuracy and beauty of construction as a man for Industry and perseverance and as a friend for a kind and benevolent heart.
Page 470 - Report on a survey of the river Thames from Boulter's lock to the city stone near Staines, and on the best method of improving the navigation of the said river, and making it into as compleat a state of perfection as it is capable of.
Page 382 - On errors in standards of linear measure, arising from the thickness of the bar on which they are traced. Phil. Trans., 1830, pp. 359-881. 31. — KATER, C»pt. HENRY. An account of the construction and verification of a copy of the imperial standard yard made for the Royal Society.
Page 40 - On the Errors in the Course of Vessels occasioned by local attraction, with some remarks on the recent loss of His Majesty's ship Thetis.
Page 52 - Bentham was appointed in 1796 to consider all matters which related to the improvement of the building, fitting out and arming of ... ships and vessels as well as what may conduce to the better navigating and victualling of them; the construction of docks, slips, basins, jetties and other works subservient to the construction and equipment of the ships and vessels; together with the due choice, preservation and economical employment of the several stores and provisions made use of in the...

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