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If the Commissioners approved the memorialists were called on to deposit half the expense in the Bank of Scotland . 4. Telford prepared detailed working drawings and specifications and laid out the line of the road . 5.
If the Commissioners approved the memorialists were called on to deposit half the expense in the Bank of Scotland . 4. Telford prepared detailed working drawings and specifications and laid out the line of the road . 5.
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... I hope the Commissioners will admit it as a mistaken zeal and to the difficulty of getting an entirely new business of this nature brought into the form which it is both proper and necessary it should be carried on in .
... I hope the Commissioners will admit it as a mistaken zeal and to the difficulty of getting an entirely new business of this nature brought into the form which it is both proper and necessary it should be carried on in .
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3 Telford was appointed by the Commissioners their technical adviser'on all works requiring the information of a Civil Engineer . ' The more important of the works with which , during a period of about 10-12 years , the Commissioners ...
3 Telford was appointed by the Commissioners their technical adviser'on all works requiring the information of a Civil Engineer . ' The more important of the works with which , during a period of about 10-12 years , the Commissioners ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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