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... 'll tear away that Pillar if my schemes succeed , and let the Old beef head and his puppy * Matthew Davidson - who became one of Telford's chief assistants . of an ignorant Clerk try their dexterity at their leisure 6 THE STORY OF TELFORD.
... 'll tear away that Pillar if my schemes succeed , and let the Old beef head and his puppy * Matthew Davidson - who became one of Telford's chief assistants . of an ignorant Clerk try their dexterity at their leisure 6 THE STORY OF TELFORD.
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... assistants . Telford had thus a great field before him in Scotland , and probably no one realised its opportunities as well as himself . It might indeed of itself have been an ordinary life's work . In his remaining 33 years he built in ...
... assistants . Telford had thus a great field before him in Scotland , and probably no one realised its opportunities as well as himself . It might indeed of itself have been an ordinary life's work . In his remaining 33 years he built in ...
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... assistants William Hughes and H. Fulton . He began to make elaborate preparations . The account of the stores they laid in is preserved and shows what was considered advisable for the uncertainties of the long and hazardous TELFORD ...
... assistants William Hughes and H. Fulton . He began to make elaborate preparations . The account of the stores they laid in is preserved and shows what was considered advisable for the uncertainties of the long and hazardous TELFORD ...
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Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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