The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer - With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
Release date:	July 2014
Authors:	Samuel Smiles
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-06789-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
LSN:	1-108-06789-1
Barcode:	9781108067898

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