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.
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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