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It was not a matter of speculation , and a list was given of the ' Engineers , Mathematicians and Scientists ' to whom the plan and dimensions of the bridge proposed by Telford and Douglas had been referred and who agreed that it could ...
It was not a matter of speculation , and a list was given of the ' Engineers , Mathematicians and Scientists ' to whom the plan and dimensions of the bridge proposed by Telford and Douglas had been referred and who agreed that it could ...
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At the same time they referred to the deplorable state of the roads between Shrewsbury and Bangor , but said they could make no proposals in the absence of a proper survey by a professional engineer . It was as a result of this report ...
At the same time they referred to the deplorable state of the roads between Shrewsbury and Bangor , but said they could make no proposals in the absence of a proper survey by a professional engineer . It was as a result of this report ...
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... wrote Rickman , ' in being made the instrument of a transaction which in his opinion was premeditated and collusive , he seems to have destroyed all his documents relative to this grand scheme ' ?; and never referred to it again .
... wrote Rickman , ' in being made the instrument of a transaction which in his opinion was premeditated and collusive , he seems to have destroyed all his documents relative to this grand scheme ' ?; and never referred to it again .
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Contents
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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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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