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... and is now referred to a Committee - his remarks on the latter I on Saturday lay before a general meeting of the Commissioners , and very probably shall have the new modelling their plan of that large building , as he has found ...
... and is now referred to a Committee - his remarks on the latter I on Saturday lay before a general meeting of the Commissioners , and very probably shall have the new modelling their plan of that large building , as he has found ...
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Vignolles , one of the earliest members , and President many years later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the Institution and Telford had to fight .
Vignolles , one of the earliest members , and President many years later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the Institution and Telford had to fight .
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There were several projects at this period , one or more of which were referred to Telford for report . 1825-34 . BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL JUNCTION CANAL . An extension of the Birmingham Canal to join the Chester Canal at Nantwich ...
There were several projects at this period , one or more of which were referred to Telford for report . 1825-34 . BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL JUNCTION CANAL . An extension of the Birmingham Canal to join the Chester Canal at Nantwich ...
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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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