TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smiles,Samuel
TI  - The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Technology
SN  - 9781107049475 (ebook)
AV  - TA140.T45 S65 1867
U1  - 620.0092 23
PY  - 1867///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Civil engineers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Roads
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index
N2  - This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Lives of the Engineers) on the history of roads in Britain, from prehistoric trackways, via the Romans, to the modern road-building system pioneered by John Metcalf (the extraordinary 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough') and Telford himself. This illustrated work gives engaging accounts from earlier writers of the perils of road travel, and also deals in detail with Telford's own career as a builder of roads, bridges and canals
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107049475
ER  -