Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875) has been somewhat overshadowed
by his contemporaries, the Stephensons, Brunel and Locke. Yet from
1825 to 1870, he was continually involved in the field of civil
engineering in the UK, Ireland and overseas. Among his achievements
were the Tudela and Bilbao Railway in northern Spain, and the
suspension bridge spanning the River Dnieper at Kiev, Russia, which
at the time of its completion was one of the largest bridges of its
kind in the world. This account, originally published in 1982, is
based on a close study of original records, including a large
volume of correspondence as well as Vignoles' extensive diaries in
the British Library. The aim of the book is to put his engineering
achievements into perspective in comparison with those of his
contemporaries, and by drawing on his own account of himself to
illuminate the personal background of one of the great pioneers of
the Victorian age of civil engineering.
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