Download PDF by Michael R. Bailey: Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer

By Michael R. Bailey

Robert Stephenson, the best engineer of the mid-nineteenth century whose sizeable public works led to massive social switch is now the topic of this wonderful new biography: Robert Stephenson - The Eminent Engineer. Stephenson's engineering perform used to be liable for significant railway development programmes in Britain and in a foreign country. He oversaw the development of many bridges, relatively the leading edge tubular bridges in North Wales and used to be influential within the improvement of England's railway community. Stephenson's engineering perform in Westminster, whose many affiliates have been engaged all through England, have been answerable for immense railway construction programmes through the 'mania' years of the 1840s. by way of 1850, he used to be linked to one 3rd of the railway community. His in another country railway involvements incorporated construction many miles of line and constructing nationwide delivery plans. Robert Stephenson - The Eminent Engineer additionally considers Stephenson's public roles and exhibits how he was once perceived through his contemporaries. Stephenson used to be a Member of Parliament and Commissioner for the nice Exhibition, was once good revered as an arbitrator, obtained a number of British and in a foreign country honours and used to be President of either the associations of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

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