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In or about the year 1780 he went to Edinburgh where work was then in progress particularly on Princes Street and generally throughout the New Town , lately joined to the Old Town by the rebuilt bridge across the partially drained North ...
In or about the year 1780 he went to Edinburgh where work was then in progress particularly on Princes Street and generally throughout the New Town , lately joined to the Old Town by the rebuilt bridge across the partially drained North ...
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At the same time Dr. Hope , Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University , carried out a detailed investigation from the chemical point of view . The report dealt fully with the existing sources of supply , noted the lack of any fixed ...
At the same time Dr. Hope , Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University , carried out a detailed investigation from the chemical point of view . The report dealt fully with the existing sources of supply , noted the lack of any fixed ...
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19 As an example of the danger of earth backing for bridges , he instanced the collapse of the bridge crossing the Nor Loch at Edinburgh , designed by Mylne , commenced in 1763 and wrecked in 1769 when still not quite complete ...
19 As an example of the danger of earth backing for bridges , he instanced the collapse of the bridge crossing the Nor Loch at Edinburgh , designed by Mylne , commenced in 1763 and wrecked in 1769 when still not quite complete ...
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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 | 7 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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