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... measures -The Birmingham Canal - Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood its promoters - Brindley's level lengths Canal between Chesterfield and the Trent- Extent of Canals laid out by Brindley - His educational disadvantages - His work not ...
... measures -The Birmingham Canal - Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood its promoters - Brindley's level lengths Canal between Chesterfield and the Trent- Extent of Canals laid out by Brindley - His educational disadvantages - His work not ...
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... measure as the founders of modern England . Engineering , like architecture , strikingly marks the several stages which have occurred in the development of society , and throws much curious light upon history . The ancient British ...
... measure as the founders of modern England . Engineering , like architecture , strikingly marks the several stages which have occurred in the development of society , and throws much curious light upon history . The ancient British ...
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... measure having failed , the Commissioners of Sewers of Norfolk , at a session held at King's Lynn , in 1629 , determined to call to their aid Sir Cornelius Vermuyden . At an interview to which he was invited , he offered to find the ...
... measure having failed , the Commissioners of Sewers of Norfolk , at a session held at King's Lynn , in 1629 , determined to call to their aid Sir Cornelius Vermuyden . At an interview to which he was invited , he offered to find the ...
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... measures to provide the requisite means to pay the workmen and prosecute the drainage ; until the undertakers became so largely his debtors that they were under the necessity of conveying to him many thousand acres of the reclaimed ...
... measures to provide the requisite means to pay the workmen and prosecute the drainage ; until the undertakers became so largely his debtors that they were under the necessity of conveying to him many thousand acres of the reclaimed ...
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... measures to get rid of the drainers , and restore the lands to their former state . The Earl of Lindsey had succeeded at great cost in enclosing and draining about 35,000 acres of the Lindsey Level , and induced numerous farmers and ...
... measures to get rid of the drainers , and restore the lands to their former state . The Earl of Lindsey had succeeded at great cost in enclosing and draining about 35,000 acres of the Lindsey Level , and induced numerous farmers and ...
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