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I. Early years in Eskdale — apprenticed masonWorks on the New Town in EdinburghSomerset House , London - Commissioner's House , Portsmouth Dockyard - Shrewsbury -Surveyor of Shropshire - St . Chad's Church -Montford and Buildwas Bridges ...
I. Early years in Eskdale — apprenticed masonWorks on the New Town in EdinburghSomerset House , London - Commissioner's House , Portsmouth Dockyard - Shrewsbury -Surveyor of Shropshire - St . Chad's Church -Montford and Buildwas Bridges ...
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The great champion of the Gotha Canal was the Count von Platen , who in the troubled and difficult years of the early part of the nineteenth century , was one of the ablest of Swedish statesmen , though he himself always repudiated any ...
The great champion of the Gotha Canal was the Count von Platen , who in the troubled and difficult years of the early part of the nineteenth century , was one of the ablest of Swedish statesmen , though he himself always repudiated any ...
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... public- Steam's early days , 275 ; disspirited Fraser of Lovat , 92 ; a abling illness , 283 ; miscellaneous Tory stoic , 93 ; excellent selec- activities , 283 , etc. ; his passing tion of co - workers , 95 ; cold - water ( Sept.
... public- Steam's early days , 275 ; disspirited Fraser of Lovat , 92 ; a abling illness , 283 ; miscellaneous Tory stoic , 93 ; excellent selec- activities , 283 , etc. ; his passing tion of co - workers , 95 ; cold - water ( Sept.
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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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