Download or read book Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century written by John F. Layson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century written by John F. Layson and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century written by J F Layson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century is a fascinating look at some of the most important engineers of the 1800s. From innovators in transportation to pioneers in electricity, this book celebrates the achievements of engineering's most forward-thinking visionaries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book FAMOUS ENGINEERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY written by J. F. LAYSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Engineers of the Nineteenth Century written by Christine Roysdon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. This biography aims solve the problem of the lack of access to information regarding American engineers and technologists of the nineteenth-century, whilst also providing opportunities for scholars to study and assess the work of hitherto little known, potentially important figures. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of science and history.
Download or read book Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century Classic Reprint written by J. F. Layson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century As the records of human actions form the most important part of a country's history, so the labours of English Engineers furnish the best materials for a narrative of the promotion and progress of the Railway System. In the following biographical sketches an attempt has been made to group together the leading incidents in the lives of Memorable Engineers of the Nineteenth Century, so as to give the reader a concise recital of the events that contributed to the birth and growth, conception and maturity, of the most prominent enterprise of modern times. Should it be felt that some matters have not received such a full treatment as either the importance of the subjects or their bearing upon any particular career would have warranted, a reason for the apparent omission may be found in the circumstance that occurrences which have been passed over in one connection may have received fairer usage in another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Engineering and Engineers written by Michael Ciaran Duffy and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the history of engineers from the 16th to the 20th century. It begins with two general papers, the first one by M. Duffy on the nature of engineering, the other by E. Knobloch on engineers of the Renaissance and their illustrated manuscripts. The other papers deal with the training of engineers, their methods, and role in the international technological transfers as well as the biography of some famous engineers.
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Download or read book Engineering America written by Richard Haw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries. Horace Greeley called him "a model immigrant"; generations later, F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on a script for the movie version of his life. Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America. He was a voracious reader, a fervent abolitionist, and an engaged social commentator. His understanding of the natural world, however, bordered on the occult and his opinions about medicine are best described as medieval. For a man of science and great self-certainty, he was also remarkably quick to seize on a whole host of fads and foolish trends. Yet Roebling held these strands together. Throughout his life, he believed in the moral application of science and technology, that bridges--along with other great works of connection, the Atlantic Cable, the Transcontinental Railroad--could help bring people together, erase divisions, and heal wounds. Like Walt Whitman, Roebling was deeply committed to the creation of a more perfect union, forged from the raw materials of the continent. John Roebling was a complex, deeply divided yet undoubtedly influential figure, and this biography illuminates not only his works but also the world of nineteenth-century America. Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials, and failures of nineteenth century America.
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer 1858 1908 Classic Reprint written by Robert Maitland Brereton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer, 1858-1908 Half a century of active and continuous employment in the various fields of civil engineering in parts of the world-wide British Empire and in the United States of North America may contain matters of interest to my old and young friends wheresoever they be. The twentieth and thirty-first of January, 1908, were two fiftieth anniversaries in my professional career. The latter date recalled the launching of the Great Eastern steamship at Mill Wall, on the Thames. I believe I am the only living engineer who had been employed by Mr. I. K. Brunel, her designer and builder, in his oflice, and witnessed her construction during 1854-5. I was not a witness of the launching ceremony in 1858, as I was then in India, engaged in the survey and staking out of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, which was to connect Bombay with Calcutta and Madras. C'yrus Field told me in 1871, in New York, that if he had not had the fortunate opportunity to charter this gigantic vessel for the laying of his perfected cable on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean in 1865-6, he could not have made such a success of it. We should realize that the laying of this cable was the most important international link and economic event between England and North America since the first discovery of America by John and Sebastian Cabot in 1497-8. England on this fiftieth anniversary had the opportunity of recalling to mind the great name and master - genius of one of her most famous civil engineers, who had during the first half of the last century designed and built the largest steam vessels - the Great Britain and the Great Western - for international commerce across the Atlantic Ocean. He, too, had had the foresight to realize the fact that growing population and increase of commerce in the future would require a broader width of gauge for railways than the ordi nary old wagon gauge of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Claudius Crozet French Engineer in America 1790 1864 written by Robert F. Hunter and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography reflects the growing recognition by historians and engineers of Claudius Crozet's importance in 19th-century civil engineering - especially his contributions to the development of transportation systems in America, particularly in Virginia.
Download or read book The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel written by Alfred Pugsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-05-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, this book by a group of engineers, each distinguished for work in their field, describes the achievements of I. K. Brunel, the giant among nineteenth-century engineers, whose works include the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and three famous ships, Great Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern.
Download or read book A Social History of Engineering written by W. H. G. Armytage and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isambard Kingdom Brunel written by John Malam and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series has been hugely successful and the new paperback of Isambard Kingdom Brunel is bound to invite even further triumphs Each title tells the life story of an eminent individual in simple language, with a superb array of photographs. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the greatest engineers of the nineteenth century and much of his work, from bridges and tunnels to shops and railways, is still standing today. This book describes how he came to be an engineer and some of the famous projects he worked on until his death in 1859. The photographs also provide an interesting insight into life in Victorian England.
Download or read book Victorian Engineering written by L. T. C. Rolt and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the course of British engineering throughout the 19th century, this survey gives accounts of such major developments as the building of the railways, the growth of ship-building and the introduction of gas and electricity. It examines the individual achievements of Brunel, Joseph Paxton and Robert Stephenson among others, and explains how industrialization changed the face of the environment. The book concludes by considering why the Victorians' mood of optimism turned to one of disillusionment. It argues that the Victorians failed to come to terms with the consequences of industrialization, and that many of the innovations of British engineers found their best expression in other countries.
Download or read book A biographical index of British engineers in the 19th Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
