Lives of the engineers
Subtitle: with an account of their principal works; comprising also a history of inland communication in Britain
By: by Samuel Smiles ; with portraits and numerous illustrations.
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Newton Abbott
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Brindley, James.; Rennie, John, -- 1761-1821.; Smeaton, John, -- 1724-1792.; Stephenson, George, -- 1781-1848.; Stephenson, Robert, -- 1803-1859.; Telford, Thomas.; Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Engineering -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Reprinted from the edition published London: John Murray, 1862, with a new introduction by L.T.C. Rolt.
Table of contents: value: work of James Brindley; John Smeaton; John Rennie; Thomas Telford; George Stephenson; Robert Stephenson and others.