A Biographical Dictionary Of Civil Engineers In Great Britain And Ireland 1500 1830

This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.

This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.

This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.

The third volume of the authoritative source of information on the engineers who designed public works over the past 300 years.

This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.

With biographical details of nearly 800 leading civil engineers of the Victorian era, this dictionary includes many that have never been written about until now. It outlines the lives of these engineers and lists the works for which they were responsible, and provides indexes of names and places.

Annotation This book presents biographical details of nearly 800 leading practitioners of the Victorian era, including many that have never been written about until now. It outlines the lives of these engineers and lists the works for which they were responsible, and provides indexes of names and places. The engineers covered in this volume were responsible for most of the infrastructure of the United Kingdom and the former `British Empire¿ during the Victorian era ¿ a time of unprecedented expansion. In addition to the designers of railways, docks, harbours and public utilities, this volume reveals information about the contractors who built them, the scientists who contributed to the development of civil engineering knowledge and the technical authors who disseminated best practice. This volume of work enables clients, engineers and architects with an interest in engineering history or involvement in conservation to access a lot of information that is not published anywhere else. It allows the reader to assess the relative importance of civil engineering works, and also to make comparisons of the relative contributions made by individuals to the huge expansion of infrastructure during 1830-1890. The social and economic contexts in which the individuals worked are also dealt with.

The main body of the first volume is taken up by five major keynote papers written by a team of international experts, that survey the enormous advances that have taken place in geotechnical engineering since Skempton's pioneering early work. The second volume contains more than 80 articles that report recent research and advances in practice from around the world. The papers focus on the broad range of geotechnical issues, that most interested Professor Skempton, and are grouped under the headings of: - Soil behaviour, characterisation and modelling - Foundations - Slopes and embankments - Ground performance - The influence of geology on civil engineering.