Lives of the engineers, with an account of their principal works
Subtitle: comprising also a history of inland communication in Britain
By: by Samuel Smiles
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Engineers; Engineering; History; Transportation
Notes: "Sixth thousand."

Includes indexes.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Early works of embanking and draining. Life of Sir Hugh Myddelton. Early roads and modes of travelling. Bridges, harbours and ferries. Life of James Brindley.; title: 2. Life of John Smeaton. Life of John Rennie. Life of Thomas Telford.; title: 3. George and Robert Stephenson.