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... assistance and a consider- able amount of information , and apparently supplying several pumping engines . In August 1800 Telford was obtaining quotations for the delivery and erection of an 18 in . cylinder steam engine and 12 in ...
... assistance and a consider- able amount of information , and apparently supplying several pumping engines . In August 1800 Telford was obtaining quotations for the delivery and erection of an 18 in . cylinder steam engine and 12 in ...
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... assistance and advice of Mr. Jessop while in Scotland determining the above measures . ' ' It was approved , and Jessop went over the whole line in the autumn of that year and subsequently visited it every year until 1812. Jessop's ...
... assistance and advice of Mr. Jessop while in Scotland determining the above measures . ' ' It was approved , and Jessop went over the whole line in the autumn of that year and subsequently visited it every year until 1812. Jessop's ...
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... assistance you have prepared for me by forming the two young men : the only fear I have in regard to them is that their new occupation will keep them from to bring as early as I had wished their precious collection under their voyage in ...
... assistance you have prepared for me by forming the two young men : the only fear I have in regard to them is that their new occupation will keep them from to bring as early as I had wished their precious collection under their voyage in ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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