Lives of the Engineers : With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain (Paperback)

Part VI. Life of John Smeaton: 1. John Smeaton's birth and education; 2. Placed in an attorney's office; 3. Dangers of the Eddystone Rock; 4. Lord Macclesfield's recommendation of Smeaton; 5. Smeaton appointed receiver for the Derwentwater estates; 6. Smeaton's home at Austhorpe; Part VII. Life of John Rennie: 1. Rennie born at Phantasssie, East Lothian; 2. Fletcher of Saltoun introduces barley-mills; 3. The Rennie family; 4. London in 1785; 5. Recommends the employment of the steam-engine in fen drainage; 6. Dr Robison visits Rennie in London; 7. Growth of the trade of London; 8. Dangers of the Bell Rock; 9. Rennie extensively employed by the government; 10. Plymouth Sound; 11. Rennie's extensive and various employments; Part VIII. Life of Thomas Telford: 1. Eskdale; 2. Telford apprenticed to a stonemason; 3. Telford a working man in London; 4. Superintends repairs of Shrewsbury Castle; 5. Advantages of mechanical training to an engineer; 6. Course of the Ellesmere Canal; 7. Use of iron in bridge-building; 8. Progress of Scotch agriculture; 9. Highland harbours; 10. Canal projected through the Great Glen of the Highlands; 11. Increase of road-traffic; 12. Bridges projected over the Menai Straits; 13. Resume of English engineering; 14. Telford's residence in London; Index.