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... inspired by Wilkinson , remained unchallenged and uncopied . Curiously , interest in such uses of iron revived almost simultaneously in several directions . When Telford had almost decided to use iron at Buildwas , Rennie had ...
... inspired by Wilkinson , remained unchallenged and uncopied . Curiously , interest in such uses of iron revived almost simultaneously in several directions . When Telford had almost decided to use iron at Buildwas , Rennie had ...
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13 And it was the best who were emigrating to the Colonies , particularly Eastern Canada , Nova Scotia , and Prince Edward Island ; the feeble and unenterprising remained behind . With these considerations before them the Select ...
13 And it was the best who were emigrating to the Colonies , particularly Eastern Canada , Nova Scotia , and Prince Edward Island ; the feeble and unenterprising remained behind . With these considerations before them the Select ...
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Wilson and Simpson remained behind , but Telford brought back with him two young Swedish engineers , Lagerheim and Edstrom , who were especially chosen by von Platen to have a year's training in England . They spent nearly ten months in ...
Wilson and Simpson remained behind , but Telford brought back with him two young Swedish engineers , Lagerheim and Edstrom , who were especially chosen by von Platen to have a year's training in England . They spent nearly ten months in ...
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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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