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They have established Rules and Orders for the Government of the Institution , and have unremittingly laboured to mature them , to make them applicable to every circumstance likely to arise , and at the same time to have prosecuted ...
They have established Rules and Orders for the Government of the Institution , and have unremittingly laboured to mature them , to make them applicable to every circumstance likely to arise , and at the same time to have prosecuted ...
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a ' It is my duty , as President , to offer some remarks on the nature of the institution and its probable results ; they shall only be a few and short , it being , I trust , sufficiently apparent that the principles of the institution ...
a ' It is my duty , as President , to offer some remarks on the nature of the institution and its probable results ; they shall only be a few and short , it being , I trust , sufficiently apparent that the principles of the institution ...
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supporting the new Institution had not been viewed with favour by some of the more senior and important of his contemporaries . All his colleagues in the Smeatonian Society did not share his catholic outlook . There was indeed something ...
supporting the new Institution had not been viewed with favour by some of the more senior and important of his contemporaries . All his colleagues in the Smeatonian Society did not share his catholic outlook . There was indeed something ...
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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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