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The Select Committee had reported on 3rd June ; by 4th July the Act appointing the Commissioners had been passed , and on 7th July they held their first meeting , at which they resolved that it was important to employ , without loss of ...
The Select Committee had reported on 3rd June ; by 4th July the Act appointing the Commissioners had been passed , and on 7th July they held their first meeting , at which they resolved that it was important to employ , without loss of ...
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In this account the roads appear at the moment to be usurping too much attention , and it is time to turn from them to other of Telford's works — to a highly important work of quite different nature that synchronised with the completion ...
In this account the roads appear at the moment to be usurping too much attention , and it is time to turn from them to other of Telford's works — to a highly important work of quite different nature that synchronised with the completion ...
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... which you recommended while last in this country , is about completed , and will form a handsome Street . ' ? But Telford's most important work in Scotland in his last years were the two important bridges in Edinburgh and Glasgow .
... which you recommended while last in this country , is about completed , and will form a handsome Street . ' ? But Telford's most important work in Scotland in his last years were the two important bridges in Edinburgh and Glasgow .
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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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