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... banks - Attention to details - Rate of wages paid to workmen - Entries in diary — Brindley's training of workmen — Their trade secrets Lawrence Earnshaw - Number of men employed on the Canal - Brindley's bold idea of a bridge across the ...
... banks - Attention to details - Rate of wages paid to workmen - Entries in diary — Brindley's training of workmen — Their trade secrets Lawrence Earnshaw - Number of men employed on the Canal - Brindley's bold idea of a bridge across the ...
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... and the States as to inspection - Financial troubles and appeals to Colbert- The works nearly completed when Riquet dies - Cost of the Canal . - 301-312 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Thames from Dagenham Bank .. CONTENTS . xiii.
... and the States as to inspection - Financial troubles and appeals to Colbert- The works nearly completed when Riquet dies - Cost of the Canal . - 301-312 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Thames from Dagenham Bank .. CONTENTS . xiii.
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Samuel Smiles. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Thames from Dagenham Bank .. 115 JAMES BRINDLEY AND THE EARLY ENGINEERS . JAMES BRINDLEY AND. PAGE ! PAGE Portrait of Brindley - Frontispiece . Portrait of the Young Duke of Bridge- Romney Marsh ...
Samuel Smiles. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Thames from Dagenham Bank .. 115 JAMES BRINDLEY AND THE EARLY ENGINEERS . JAMES BRINDLEY AND. PAGE ! PAGE Portrait of Brindley - Frontispiece . Portrait of the Young Duke of Bridge- Romney Marsh ...
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... . The tract is a dead , uniform level , extending from Hythe , in Kent , westward to Winchelsea , in Sussex ; and it is to this day held from the sea by a continuous wall or bank , on the B 2 CHAP . I. 3 RECLAMATION OF ROMNEY MARSH .
... . The tract is a dead , uniform level , extending from Hythe , in Kent , westward to Winchelsea , in Sussex ; and it is to this day held from the sea by a continuous wall or bank , on the B 2 CHAP . I. 3 RECLAMATION OF ROMNEY MARSH .
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Samuel Smiles. sea by a continuous wall or bank , on the solidity of which the preservation of the district depends , the surface of the marsh being under the level of the sea at the highest tides . The following descriptive view of the ...
Samuel Smiles. sea by a continuous wall or bank , on the solidity of which the preservation of the district depends , the surface of the marsh being under the level of the sea at the highest tides . The following descriptive view of the ...
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afterwards bank became boats Brading breach Bridge Bridgewater Canal Brindley Brindley's Burslem called carried channel coal conduits Congleton constructed contrived Cwmsymlog Dagenham Denbigh difficulty district drain drainage drowned Duke of Bridgewater Duke's canal Earl embankment employed enable engineer England enterprise erected executed Fcap feet Fens Gilbert Grand Trunk ground haven hill History horses improved industry inhabitants inland Irwell James James Brindley King labour land length Liverpool London machinery Manchester manufacturing Marsh ment Mersey miles mill millwright mines navigation neighbourhood occasion occupied opening Parliament passed Perry port Post 8vo Potteries proceeded purpose reclaimed Riquet river river Irwell river Mersey roads Romney Marsh Royal Runcorn Second Edition shortly Sir Cornelius Vermuyden Sir Hugh Myddelton skill sluices Staffordshire stream Street supply Thames tide tion town trade tunnel Turnhurst undertaking Vermuyden Vols Wedgwood whilst Woodcuts workmen Worsley