Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles ...: Soldier and Civil Engineer, Formerly Lieutenant in H.M. 1st Royals, Past-president of Institution of Civil Engineers; a Reminiscence of Early Railway HistoryThis memoir of the life and work of the late Mr C.B. Vignoles is in three sections: his life of adventure as an officer in the British Army; his work as one of the small group of civil engineers engaged in the construction of the earliest railways in England and Ireland; and his foreign engineering work. |
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... PLAN OF STEPHENSON'S FIRST ROUTE FOR LIVERPOOL AND MAN- CHESTER RAILWAY . OPENING OUT OF THE EDGE HILL TUNNEL 109 • 112 ' ROCKET ' LOCOMOTIVE 129 VIEW OF NOVELTY ' ENGINE AND TRAIN OF COACHES IN 1830 RUNCORN AND ENVIRONS • 130 • 138 ...
... PLAN OF STEPHENSON'S FIRST ROUTE FOR LIVERPOOL AND MAN- CHESTER RAILWAY . OPENING OUT OF THE EDGE HILL TUNNEL 109 • 112 ' ROCKET ' LOCOMOTIVE 129 VIEW OF NOVELTY ' ENGINE AND TRAIN OF COACHES IN 1830 RUNCORN AND ENVIRONS • 130 • 138 ...
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... plan of the fortress and town . Here was a task for me , unfurnished with a single instrument ! deter me , and with a pencil and paper in feet as measures , in three days I took the dimensions of the ramparts , and in two more of the ...
... plan of the fortress and town . Here was a task for me , unfurnished with a single instrument ! deter me , and with a pencil and paper in feet as measures , in three days I took the dimensions of the ramparts , and in two more of the ...
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... plans of this coast as finished . ' The story of Vignoles's first sojourn in the States ends here abruptly , and for six months there is no record of any kind of himself or his family . From his next letter , dated London , October 3 ...
... plans of this coast as finished . ' The story of Vignoles's first sojourn in the States ends here abruptly , and for six months there is no record of any kind of himself or his family . From his next letter , dated London , October 3 ...
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... plan of the racecourse here for the Jockey Club , and am hard pressed to get it done , as the races begin to - morrow ... plans for $ 500 , having now finished the map of the state of South Carolina . ' I am straining every nerve to make ...
... plan of the racecourse here for the Jockey Club , and am hard pressed to get it done , as the races begin to - morrow ... plans for $ 500 , having now finished the map of the state of South Carolina . ' I am straining every nerve to make ...
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... plan of St. Augustine ; and , à propos of plans , I must tell you that Petitvale and myself are much improved in our drawing . I made a mag- nificent title to the Graves ' plan , and the map was the admiration of all who saw it . ' On ...
... plan of St. Augustine ; and , à propos of plans , I must tell you that Petitvale and myself are much improved in our drawing . I made a mag- nificent title to the Graves ' plan , and the map was the admiration of all who saw it . ' On ...
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