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At the same time Dr. Hope , Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University , carried out a detailed investigation from the chemical point of view . The report dealt fully with the existing sources of supply , noted the lack of any fixed ...
At the same time Dr. Hope , Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University , carried out a detailed investigation from the chemical point of view . The report dealt fully with the existing sources of supply , noted the lack of any fixed ...
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19 As an example of the danger of earth backing for bridges , he instanced the collapse of the bridge crossing the Nor Loch at Edinburgh , designed by Mylne , commenced in 1763 and wrecked in 1769 when still not quite complete ...
19 As an example of the danger of earth backing for bridges , he instanced the collapse of the bridge crossing the Nor Loch at Edinburgh , designed by Mylne , commenced in 1763 and wrecked in 1769 when still not quite complete ...
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The City of Edinburgh had been expanding rapidly during all the first quarter of the nineteenth century . The New Town , which in Telford's youth had not been long started , north of the North Loch , had now reached the banks of the ...
The City of Edinburgh had been expanding rapidly during all the first quarter of the nineteenth century . The New Town , which in Telford's youth had not been long started , north of the North Loch , had now reached the banks of the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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