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Klappentext Spanning from the Roman to Victorian period, this three-volume work (1861-2) provides detailed biographies of Britain's most notable engineers. Zusammenfassung Following the success of his Life of George Stephenson in 1857, the author and social reformer Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) published this three-volume work between 1861 and 1862. Spanning from the Roman to Victorian period, it provides fascinating biographies of Britain's most notable engineers, including detailed accounts of their pioneering work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part VI. Life of John Smeaton: 1. John Smeaton's birth and education; 2. Placed in an attorney's office; 3. Dangers of the Eddystone Rock; 4. Lord Macclesfield's recommendation of Smeaton; 5. Smeaton appointed receiver for the Derwentwater estates; 6. Smeaton's home at Austhorpe; Part VII. Life of John Rennie: 1. Rennie born at Phantasssie, East Lothian; 2. Fletcher of Saltoun introduces barley-mills; 3. The Rennie family; 4. London in 1785; 5. Recommends the employment of the steam-engine in fen drainage; 6. Dr Robison visits Rennie in London; 7. Growth of the trade of London; 8. Dangers of the Bell Rock; 9. Rennie extensively employed by the government; 10. Plymouth Sound; 11. Rennie's extensive and various employments; Part VIII. Life of Thomas Telford: 1. Eskdale; 2. Telford apprenticed to a stonemason; 3. Telford a working man in London; 4. Superintends repairs of Shrewsbury Castle; 5. Advantages of mechanical training to an engineer; 6. Course of the Ellesmere Canal; 7. Use of iron in bridge-building; 8. Progress of Scotch agriculture; 9. Highland harbours; 10. Canal projected through the Great Glen of the Highlands; 11. Increase of road-traffic; 12. Bridges projected over the Menai Straits; 13. Résumé of English engineering; 14. Telford's residence in London; Index.
