During the 19th century, the engineering of ports and harbours became a large and specialised branch of the profession. This development began in ports in physically difficult locations and may be particularly identified with the growth of the Port of Liverpool. Stimulated by the arrival of ever-larger steamships and the heavy investment in port facilities that they demanded, it spread around much of the world. The opening papers give examples of what could be achieved in antiquity; the following ones set out the advances in design and technology from 1700 to the start of this century - and note some of the failures and recurrent problems. They also illustrate the critical importance of political and economic factors in determining what the engineers achieved.
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'This book presents an invaluable reference collection for the study of civil engineering.' Sea Technology Magazine 'Jarvis introduction provides an excellent context for the papers included in the volume. He also provides a useful select bibliography...The volume has name and place indices and a subject index, all of which are helpful. Overall, therefore, this is a valuable collection which should stimulate further interest in what is already a growing field of historical study.' The Northern Mariner 'There is probably no one more qualified than Adrian Jarvis to edit a selection of papers on the history of ports...[ an] extremely useful collection....' International Journal of Maritime History 'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [ The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1 '... the collection will prove a most valuable resource.' The Mariner's Mirror
Acknowledgements vii-ix(2) General Editors Preface xi-xii(1) Introduction xiii-xxxiv(21) 1 The development of harbour and dock engineering 1(44) Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick 2 Presidential address of Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, K.C.B. (President ICE, 1940-41) 45(30) Sir Leopold Halliday Savile 3 Do docks make trade?: the case of the port of Great Grimsby 75(26) Gordon Jackson 4 The engineers of Sunderland Harbour, 1718-1817 101(24) A.W. Skempton 5 The construction of Ramsgate Harbour 125(20) Robert B. Matkin 6 Thomas Steers 145(14) Mike Clarke 7 The engineering history of Hulls earliest docks 159(12) M.W.Baldwin 8 Joseph Whidbey and the building of the Plymouth Breakwater 171(20) John Naish 9 G.P. Bidder at the London Dock extension works, 1826-1828 191(34) E.F. Clark 10 Building the Millwall Docks 225(20) Peter Guillery 11 Nineteenth century engineers in the port of Bristol 245(24) R.A. Buchanan 12 The improvement of the River Tyne, 1815-1914 269(30) R.W. Rennison 13 G.F. Lyster and the role of the dock engineer, 1861-1897 299(24) Adrian Jarvis 14 Beyond the river wall: the attack on the Mersey Bar, 1890-1923 323(16) Adrian Jarvis 15 The first harbour works at Port Natal: the role of John Milne form 1849-1857 339(22) L. Twyman 16 Imperial ports and the modern world economy: the case of the Indian Ocean 361(20) Frank Broeze Peter Reeves Kenneth McPherson 17 The development of the port of Fremantle, Australias western gateway 381(24) M.T. Tull Index 405
Adrian Jarvis, Merseyside Maritime Museumand Centre for Port and Maritime History, Liverpool, UK C. Kirkpatrick, G. Jackson, A.W. Skempton, R.B. Matkin, M. Clarke, M.W. Baldwin, J. Naish, E.F. Clark, P. Guillery, R.A. Buchanan, R.W. Rennison, A. Jarvis, L. Twyman, F. Broeze, P. Reeves, K. McPherson, M.T. Tull.
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