application of steam power to the purposes of productive industry. At length steam itself was appli...
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was substantially executed in red sandstone, and proved a very serviceable bridge, forming part of ...
But Telford, even more than any of these, was a purely country-bred boy, and was born and brought u...
10th March, 1793 *[2] Referring to the burning of Dr. Priestley's library. *[3] The preparation of...
Lochmaben, a small town across the hills to the westward, where a little more building and of a bet...
sketches and drawings, he made his way back to Eskdale and the humble cottage at The Crooks. But no...
in July, 1784, engaged in superintending the erection of a house, after a design by Mr. Samuel Wyat...
competition of country-grown cabbages. But the extension of the roads had become a matter of absolu...
The misery of the country was enormously aggravated by the wretched state of the roads. There were,...
It appears, however, that in 1608, one Timothy Pont, a young man without fortune or patronage, form...
state of the roads in all parts of England towards the end of last century. In Essex he found the r...
The little trade which existed between one part of the kingdom and another was carried on by means ...
communication. They alleged that if turnpike-roads were extended into the remoter counties, the gre...
had its witches, sometimes of different sorts, and there was scarcely an old house but had its whit...
robustness, about six feet two in height, few durst try upon him the practical jokes which cowardly...