Civil engineers and engineering in Britain, 1600-1830
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Civil engineers and engineering in Britain, 1600-1830
（Collected studies series, CS533）
Variorum, 1996
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Includes bibliographies
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume is concerned with the development of civil engineering in Britain, from the mid-16th to the mid-19th century. After a new introductory essay, the author looks at the engineers themselves, their careers, and their emergence as a recognised profession.
Table of Contents
- Engineers of the English river navigations, 1620-1760
- the negineers of Sunderland harbour, 1718-1817
- early members of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
- the publication of Smeaton's reports
- the engineering works of John Grundy (1719-1783)
- William Chapman (1743-1832), civil engineer
- engineering on the English river navigations to 1760
- engineering on the Thames navigation, 1770-1845
- Samuel Wyatt and the Albion Mill
- William Strutt's cotton mills, 1793-1812
- engineering in the Port of London, 1789-1808
- engineering in the port of London, 1808-1834.
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