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The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850
Author | : Michael M. Chrimes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351892636 |
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Between 1750 and 1850 the British landscape was transformed by a transport revolution which involved engineering works on a scale not seen in Europe since Roman times. While the economic background of the canal and railway ages are relatively well known and many histories have been written about the locomotives which ran on the railways, relatively little has been published on how the engineering works themselves were made possible. This book brings together a series of papers which seek to answer the questions of how canals and railways were built, how the engineers responsible organised the works, how they were designed and what the role of the contractors was in the process.
Structural Iron 1750 1850
Author | : R.J.M. Sutherland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351897402 |
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This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant ’high-technology’ material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry. It was necessary for the engines and machines of the new industries, but equally vital for the vast civil engineering works which supported this industrialisation. It was these works - mills, warehouses, dockyards, and above all bridges - which so impressed the public in the early 19th century. The papers selected here trace the evolving structural uses of cast and wrought iron in frames and roofs for buildings, and look in particular at the development of bridge design and construction, in America, France, and Russia, as well as in Britain. They cover the processes of design and testing, and at the same time throw much light on the attitudes and careers of the engineers themselves.
The World s First Railway System
Author | : Mark Casson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199213979 |
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This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.
Structural and Civil Engineering Design
Author | : William Addis |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351897464 |
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The importance of design has often been neglected in studies considering the history of structural and civil engineering. Yet design is a key aspect of all building and engineering work. This volume brings together a range of articles which focus on the role of design in engineering. It opens by considering the principles of design, then deals with the application of these to particular subjects including bridges, canals, dams and buildings (from Gothic cathedrals to Victorian mills) constructed using masonry, timber, cast and wrought iron.
Structural Iron and Steel 1850 1900
Author | : Robert Thorne |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351897372 |
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This volume covers the second great period of developments in iron construction from 1850, following its establishment as a structural material described in volume 9 of this series. Using the Crystal Palace of 1851 as a starting-point, the papers trace the history of iron-frame construction in Britain, France and America, and show its importance in fireproof construction, and in lattice truss and arch bridge design. A final group of papers illustrates the emergence of steel in framed buildings in both Britain and America. The selection brings out the important and daring contribution of individual engineers in their use of this material.
Water Doors and Buildings Studies in the History of Construction
Author | : James Campbell,Nina Baker,Michael Driver,Michael Heaton,Michael Tutton,Christine Wall,David Yeomans,Sabine Kuban |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780992875152 |
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This volume presents 50 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society held at Queens' College Cambridge from 5-7 April 2019 which cover a wide variety of topics on aspects of construction history with a section devoted entirely to papers on water engineering.
Rough Work
Author | : Ruth Bleasdale |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781487515430 |
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The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882. Ruth Bleasdale’s fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers and their families reveals how capital, labour and the state came together to build the transportation infrastructure that linked colonies and united an emerging nation. Combining census and community records, government documents, and newspaper archives Bleasdale elucidates the ways in which successive governments and branches of the state intervened between labour and capital and in labourers’ lives. Case studies capture the remarkable diversity across regions and time in a labour force drawn from local and international labour markets. The stories here illuminate the ways in which men and women experienced the emergence of industrial capitalism and the complex ties which bound them to local and transnational communities. Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.
The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals
Author | : Lynn Courtenay |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351890694 |
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The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe. How were they built, and why do they remain standing? What did their builders know about what they were doing? These questions have given rise to considerable controversy, which is fully reflected in the papers selected here. The first section of the book is concerned with the medieval builders and their design methods; the second focuses on engineering issues in the context of the infamous collapse of the choir at Beauvais in 1284. The following papers extend the analysis into the 15th century, looking for example at Brunelleschi’s dome for Florence Cathedral, and deal with the often neglected structures of roofs, towers and spires.