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.
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'[ Sutherlands]...pedigree as editor of such a volume is therefore beyond dispute...he brings magisterial authority to the volumes Introduction....this volume [ is]...to be very much welcomed by industrial archaeologists for focusing attention on the wealth of published material on subjects crucial to our understanding of the engineering infrastructure of modern society and for making the material so easily accessible....' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1 '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
Acknowledgements vii-ix(2) General Editors Preface xi-xii(1) Introduction xiii-xxxviii(25) PART ONE: CANALS 1(218) 1 Canals and river navigations before 1750 1(34) A.W. Skempton 2 The Waltham pound lock 35(14) K.R. Fairclough 3 Rivers and canals 49(32) Charles Hadfield 4 The construction of the Huddersfield narrow canal, 1794-1811: with particular reference to Standedge tunnel 81(22) R.B. Schofield 5 John Pinkerton and the Birmingham canals 103(18) S.R. Broadbridge 6 Managerial organization on the Caledonian canal, 1803-1822 121(22) Alastair Penfold 7 Along the water: the genius and the theory. DAlembert, Condorcet and Bossut and the Picardy canal controversy 143(34) Pietro Redondi 8 Poverty, distress and disease: labour and the construction of the Rideau canal, 1826-1832 177(24) William N.T. Wylie 9 Hugh McIntosh (1768-1840), national contractor 201(18) Mike Chrimes PART TWO: RAILWAYS 219(146) 10 Some railway facts and fallacies 219(20) Charles E. Lee 11 The influence of landowners on route selection 239(8) Frank A. Sharman 12 Englands first rails: a reconsideration 247(16) Richard S. Smith 13 The Butterley Company and railway construction, 1790-1830 263(24) P.J. Riden 14 Cast iron edge-rails at Walker Colliery, 1798 287(4) A.W. Skempton A. Andrews 15 Embankments and cuttings on the early railways 291(18) A.W. Skempton 16 The railway navvy: a reassessment 309(12) David Brooke 17 Railway contractors and the finance of railway development in Britain 321(18) Harold Pollins 18 The origin of American railroad technology, 1825-1840 339(14) Darwin H. Stapleton 19 Tracks and timber 353(12) John H. White Index 365
R.J.M. Sutherland, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Past President of the Newcomen Society S.B. Hamilton, A. W. Skempton, H.R. Johnson, R.S. Fitzgerald, R.J.M. Sutherland, E.J. Diestelkamp, S.J Fedorov, E.L. Kemp, T. Day, A. Picon, B. Trinder, D.A. Gasparini, C. Provost, D. Smith, J.G. James.
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