The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer
Author | : Samuel Smiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : |
Download The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Life Of Thomas Telford Civil E PDF full book. Access full book title Life Of Thomas Telford Civil E.
Author | : Samuel Smiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Rickman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julian Glover |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
ISBN | : 140883748X |
The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today'A biography of great verve ... brings back to vivid life a man who should never have been forgotten' Andrew Marr'An evocative biography of Britain's greatest civil engineer ... Glover catches the thrill of Telford's engineering quite beautifully' GuardianThomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy. Few people have done more to shape our nation.A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, Telford invented the modern road, built churches, harbours, canals, docks, the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales and the dramatic Menai Bridge. His constructions were the greatest in Europe for a thousand years, and - astonishingly - almost everything he ever built remains in use today. Intimate, expansive and drawing on contemporary accounts, Man of Iron is the first full modern biography of Telford. It is a book of roads and landscapes, waterways and bridges, but above all, of how one man transformed himself into the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced.
Author | : Samuel Smiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : SAMUEL. SMILES |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033176245 |
Author | : Smiles Samuel |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318796359 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : John Rickman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel 1812-1904 Smiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371310523 |
Author | : Samuel Smiles |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781359201362 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Anthony Burton |
Publisher | : Wharncliffe |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-06-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473843715 |
Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct. He built some of the best roads seen in Britain since the days of the Romans and constructed the great Caledonian Canal, designed to take ships across Scotland from coast to coast. He did as much as anyone to turn engineering into a profession and was the first President of the newly formed Institution of Civil Engineers. All this was achieved by a man who started work as a boy apprentice to a stonemason. rn He was always intensely proud of his homeland and was to be in charge of an immense programme of reconstruction for the Highlands that included building everything from roads to harbours and even designing churches. He was unquestionably one of Britain's finest engineers, able to take his place alongside giants such as Brunel. He was also a man of culture, even though he had only a rudimentary education. As a mason in his early days he had worked alongside some of the greatest architects of the day, such as William Chambers and Robert Adams, and when he was appointed County Surveyor for Shropshire early in his career, he had the opportunity to practice those skills himself, designing two imposing churches in the county and overseeing the renovation of Shrewsbury Castle. Even as a boy, he had developed a love of literature and throughout his life wrote poetry and became a close friend of the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. He was a man of many talents, who rose to the very top of his profession but never forgot his roots: he kept his old masons' tools with him to the end of his days. rn There are few official monuments to this great man, but he has no need of them: the true monuments are the structures that he left behind that speak of a man who brought about a revolution in transport and civil engineering.