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Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer
Robert Stephenson M.P., F.R.S., Hon.MA, Hon DCL (1803-1859) was the leading engineer of his day. He was acclaimed for his development of the main-line steam locomotive and renowned for his innovations in bridge building. He built the first trunk railway line in the world between London and Birmingham, was at the centre of the railway ’mania’ that gripped early Victorian Britain, and by 1850 had been responsible for one third of the railway network in England. Robert Stephenson - The Eminent Engineer is the first biographical study to be devoted to Robert Stephenson for over a century, and is fully illustrated in black-and-white and colour. Written by a team of experts in railway and engi...
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830
This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.
Joseph Locke
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having made a contribution just as great as that of the other two.The Locke family had been colliery managers and overseers for many generations and Joseph, once he had completed his very rudimentary education at Barnsley Grammar School at the age of thirteen, seemed set to follow in their footsteps. However, at the age of nineteen he was taken on as an apprentice by an old friend of his father, George S...
Personal Recollections of English Engineers and of the Introduction of the Railway System Into the United Kingdom (1868)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
John Frank Stevens
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.
Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles ...
This memoir of the life and work of the late Mr C.B. Vignoles is in three sections: his life of adventure as an officer in the British Army; his work as one of the small group of civil engineers engaged in the construction of the earliest railways in England and Ireland; and his foreign engineering work.
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The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S.
Drawing on first-hand testimony, this two-volume 1864 biography of Robert Stephenson (1803-59) traces his railway and civil engineering career.
Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles
Excerpt from Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles: Soldier and Civil Engineer, Formerly Lieutenant in H. M. 1st Royals, Past-President of Institution of Civil Engineers; A Reminiscence of Early Railway History The writer is indebted to many relatives and friends for kind help and counsel. Amongst these, he is proud to mention his brothers, Hutton and Henry Vignoles; to the latter more especially for valuable aid in many engineering and personal details, and to the former for unrestricted use of all family letters and papers, as well as for much judicious criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com T...
