The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer : With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
ISBN-10
1108067891
ISBN-13
9781108067898
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 17th, 2014
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
482 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
History of engineering & technologyHistory of engineering and technology
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This biography of civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles, author of Self-Help. Deriving from Smiles' three-volume Lives of the Engineers, it brings together accounts of road travel by earlier writers, and of Telford's own career as a builder of roads, bridges and canals.
This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Lives of the Engineers) on the history of roads in Britain, from prehistoric trackways, via the Romans, to the modern road-building system pioneered by John Metcalf (the extraordinary 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough') and Telford himself. This illustrated work gives engaging accounts from earlier writers of the perils of road travel, and also deals in detail with Telford's own career as a builder of roads, bridges and canals.
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