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I have , ' he adds , ' ever since this time caused every tall pier under my direction to be thus built . ' 6 The Chirk Aqueduct , which carried the Canal across the Ceriog from Shropshire into Denbigh , was neither so long nor so high ...
I have , ' he adds , ' ever since this time caused every tall pier under my direction to be thus built . ' 6 The Chirk Aqueduct , which carried the Canal across the Ceriog from Shropshire into Denbigh , was neither so long nor so high ...
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But at the end of the eighteenth century London Bridge became subordinated to the more important problem of the means and direction for the most efficient extension of the rapidly growing Port of London .
But at the end of the eighteenth century London Bridge became subordinated to the more important problem of the means and direction for the most efficient extension of the rapidly growing Port of London .
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But in the Fens , success in one direction is apt to have an unfortunate repercussion in some other direction ; and the increased volume and velocity were threatening the Port of King's Lynn . Telford and the young Rennie combined to ...
But in the Fens , success in one direction is apt to have an unfortunate repercussion in some other direction ; and the increased volume and velocity were threatening the Port of King's Lynn . Telford and the young Rennie combined to ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
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 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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