The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer Smiles Paperback 9781108067898

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil EngineerWith an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain\nAuthor(s): Samuel Smiles\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108067898, 978-1108067898\nSynopsis\nThis biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford [tel] was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles [tel], 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 give.