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Apprenticed at the age of fourteen , at first at Lochmaben , later in Langholm and then further afield , he learnt his craft from such building as the sparsely populated remote countryside required . It is said that he was employed on ...
Apprenticed at the age of fourteen , at first at Lochmaben , later in Langholm and then further afield , he learnt his craft from such building as the sparsely populated remote countryside required . It is said that he was employed on ...
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There was continuous building going on in the Metropolis , and Telford had not only acquired a sound knowledge of the mason's craft , but had learned more of architecture than the ordinary mason . Actually , his first work after his ...
There was continuous building going on in the Metropolis , and Telford had not only acquired a sound knowledge of the mason's craft , but had learned more of architecture than the ordinary mason . Actually , his first work after his ...
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During the years 1772-74 he seems to have worked for Andrew Thomson building a house for Dr. Mountjoy , the physician , and other houses and small bridges on the Duke of Buccleuch's estate . After that he was with Robin Hotson and ...
During the years 1772-74 he seems to have worked for Andrew Thomson building a house for Dr. Mountjoy , the physician , and other houses and small bridges on the Duke of Buccleuch's estate . After that he was with Robin Hotson and ...
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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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