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	Chapter4 text
		This engine had a steamcylinder 28 inches in diameter, and 6 feet stroke of piston; a boiler of castiron, 64 feet in diameter and 20 feet long, with a wroughtiron internal tube, 3 feet in diameter at the furnaceend and 24 inches beyond the furnace.
		The news of this accident, and the statement of the velocity of the engine were published throughout the kingdom and Europe; and the misfortune of this first victim of a railroad accident was one of the causes of the immediate adoption and rapid spread of the modern railway-system.
		This engine is another illustration of the factshown by the description already given of other and earlier enginesthat the independence of the American mechanic, and the boldness and selfconfidence which have to the present time distinguished him, were among the earliest of the fruits of our political independence and freedom.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/thurston/1878/Chapter4.html (16105 words)

	Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Rennie, John Sir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As engineer of the proposed Severn Navigation Company he proposes weirs across the two branches of the river at Gloucester with a lock in the east channel, a second lock near Upton and three more between Worcester and Stourport.
		As consultant engineer he attended the official opening of the new Winterburn reservoir and presented the Chairman with a silver key in a silver box, with which to perform the opening ceremony.
		As engineer to the trustees he was asked to prepare plans for an additional dock at Weston Point with a separate entrance to the Mersey.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Engineers13.html (3940 words)

	Significant Scots - John Rennie
		RENNIE, JOHN, a celebrated civil engineer, was the youngest son of a respectable farmer at Phantassie, in East Lothian, where he was born, June 7, 1761.
		Mr Rennie was gradually attracted from the profession of a mechanician to that of an engineer.
		Though he carried the desire of durability almost to a fault, and thus occasioned more expense, perhaps, on some occasions, than other engineers would have considered strictly necessary, he was equally admired for his conscientiousness in the fulfilment of his labours, as for his genius in their contrivance.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/rennie_john.htm (1648 words)

	LIFE OF JAMES BRINDLEY Samuel Smiles
		Other engines of a similar kind were shortly after erected in the coal districts of the north of England, in the tin and copper mines of Cornwall, and in the lead mines of Cumberland, for the purpose of pumping water from the pits.
		Brindley's practice of securing long levels of water in canals was in many respects similar to that of George Stephenson with reference to flat gradients upon railways; and in all the canals that he constructed, he planned and carried them out as far as possible after this leading principle.
		But the skill of the engineer baffled these and other prophets of evil; and the success of his expedients, in nearly every case of difficulty that occurred, must certainly be regarded as remarkable, considering the novel and unprecedented character of the undertaking.
	people.emich.edu /gcross1/Brindley_smiles.htm (16357 words)

	Samuel Smiles on Mechanical Inventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The perfection of modern machine-tools is such that the utmost possible precision is secured, and the mechanical engineer can calculate on a degree of exactitude that does not admit of a deviation beyond the thousandth part of an inch.
		When the powerful oscillating engines of the "Warrior" were put on board that ship, the parts, consisting of some five thousand separate pieces, were brought from the different workshops of the Messrs.
		Such are among the triumphs of modern mechanical engineering, due in a great measure to the perfection of the tools by means of which all works in metal are now fashioned.
	academics.uww.edu /lscore/cc120/industry/rspind7q.htm (907 words)

	History by Waterway from Red Jacket Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was appointed engineer and later appeared before the parliamentary committee in the passage of the Bill..
		As engineer responsible for river improvements between Stourport and Gloucester he presented a revised plan to the Commission.
		As engineer for the Commisssion he admitted that the depth of the river was only 4 feet in some parts, blaming the deletion of his proposed lock at Upton from the 1842 Act.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History22.html (3055 words)

	Chapter 12 The Bessemer Process
		George Rennie very well by reputation, and I invited him to a private view of the process, as carried on in the upright converter.
		Galloway, the well-known engineers, of Manchester, where they were given out to the workmen and employed by them for all the purposes for which steel had previously been used in their extensive business.
		One of the original upright fixed converters had been erected at their engineering works, and having, like all the rest, failed to produce satisfactory results with ordinary phosphoric pig-iron, it had been at once abandoned.
	www.history.rochester.edu /ehp-book/shb/hb12.htm (7801 words)

	INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY Series One: The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from ...
		The collection allows the scholar to understand the growth of the steam engine business; how the employees at the Boulton and Watt Soho Manufactory and Foundry worked and how they were dealt with by their employers.
		George Rennie and John Rennie Junior (engineers and millwrights; they were John Rennie’s two sons and they carried on the Rennie business from 1821 to 1843).
		There are letters from engine customers, the carriers who were transporting goods and parts for Boulton and Watt, firms used by Boulton and Watt for sub-contracted work, engine erectors, and people making general enquiries about engines.
	www.ampltd.co.uk /collections_az/IndRev-1-13/highlights.aspx (390 words)

	John Rennie
		After the death of John Rennie in 1821, George and his brother John (1794-1874) became partners in the family engineering firm.
		In 1826 the two Rennie brothers and Charles Vignobles surveyed the Liverpool and Manchester line and were invited by the company to build it.
		Rennie also laid out the route for the London and Brighton Railway but the company decided to give the job of building it to John Rastrick.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RArennie.htm (195 words)

	List of web sites about Spartacus Educational: Railways in the 19th Century
		George Rennie - Engineer responsible for building Waterloo Bridge and Southwick Bridge in London.
		George Stephenson - Early railroad pioneer who, with his son Robert, became the world's first locomotive builder.
		John Rastrick - Engineer of the Stratford and Moreton Railway, the London and Brighton, the Bolton and Preston, Gravesend and Rochester, and the Nottingham and Grantham line.
	www.kub.it /dir/40313 (1281 words)

	The Churchyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Rennie (died 1828) is buried on the east side of the church.
		Farmer at Phantassie, immediately beyond Houston Mill, George Rennie is remembered not only for being the brother of John Rennie, the famous civil engineer (who was brought to his profession by Andrew Meikle and is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London), but also for his own considerable contribution to agricultural improvements.
		Robert Brown (died 1831) is buried close to George Rennie to the south-east of the church.
	www.ejclark.force9.co.uk /church/yard.htm (342 words)

	Elton Engineering Books
		HALL, Samuel Hall's improvements on steam engines; consisting of an improved piston and valve: an improved method of lubricating engine pistons, piston rods and valves: and an improved method of condensing the steam and supplying water to the boilers of such steam engines as are wrought by a vacuum produced by condensation.
		RENNIE, G.B. Suggestions for the improvement of the river Danube, between Isatcha and the Sulina entrance.
		RENNIE, George & WALKER, James Report to the Commissioners of the River Wear on the formation of wet docks at Sunderland.
	www.polybiblio.com /elton (5733 words)

	1.2_invent.html
		He showed his converter to George Rennie, president of the mechanical sciences section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), where a decade earlier James Neilson had showcased his hot blast furnace, the invention that gave iron smelting its characteristic form and name.
		Rennie was duly impressed and invited Bessemer to give a talk at the upcoming BAAS meeting in Cheltenham.
		In modern terms, the oxygen in the air and the silicon and carbon in the metal combined in a violent combustion; such a chemical understanding was yet to emerge.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~tmisa/NOS/1.2_invent.html (3126 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		George Rennie, civil and railway engineer, c 1850-1859.
		Sir John Rennie, Scottish civil engineer, c 1860.
		George Rennie, British railway and marine engineer, 1854-1866.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?txtkeys1=Rennie (91 words)

	Appendix, "The Life of John Linnell" by A. T. Story
		George P. Landow has adapted it for html, adding links to the original text.
		Portrait of the Rev. George Pritchard (vignette, 9 by 5 inches).
		Portrait of the Rev. George A. Marsh, A.M., Rector of Bangor (12 by 9 inches).
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/painting/linnell/story2/appendix.html (5805 words)

	The Little Engines that Could've: The Calculating Machines of Charles Babbage
		In order to understand the attention Babbage devoted to the invention and construction of the Difference Engine, beginning at the end of 1821, it is important to understand that prior to that time, he had not become committed to any particular vocation or area of scientific research.
		The exact course by which the design of the Difference Engine developed from the general view to the subsequent realization cannot be traced in detail, and, indeed, one cannot say just when Babbage began to make specific plans, for most of his notes and drawings from the time have not survived.
		In regard to the question of building a new workshop for the engine, they considered the reasons advanced for the move by Babbage to be valid, and the plans he had suggested to be sound.
	robroy.dyndns.info /collier/ch2.html (16347 words)

	Amazon.com: "George Rennie": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jane Welsh attracted other stritors, including George Rennie, the son of a u'ecdth)' brewer and /artnel: a sculptor and /nlure governor o/ the /'ir/k/uttcls.
		George Rennie, McTavish, Considine, Black, and others, had gone up the river to cut reeds in the bed of the stream.
		Letters to her cousin Eliza Stodart show that the romantic drama she imagined herself enacting involved George Rennie, a year younger than Jane,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/George-Rennie (530 words)

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		There are only one or two marine engines of British manufacture in the Exhibition, and these by no means remarkable for their merit in design.
		The great display of tex- chanical engineers a little more than hitherto rile fabrics from Lyons was next passed in re- will astonish the world by the effectiveness of view, and his Royal Highness paused fre- the weapons they will turn out.
		George Rennie, Pro- age to the ashes of the mighty dead was in fessor Wheatstone, Professor Willis, Mr.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/livn-1/livn0047.sgm (14897 words)

	My ancestors: Adcock, Aitchison, Champnes, Mundell, Mylne, Rennie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was born in Fulham, London but returned to Portabello as a young child (around the time of her Father's death) and remained there for 11-12 years.
		George was also Admiral of Leith/the Forth in 1834, a Baillie in Edinburgh and a wine merchant in Leith.
		Family of George AITCHISON and Camilla Windus Mundell Alexina Susanna m James Bamford Flude 1 son and 8 daughters.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /helenemound/myhomepage/family.html (1736 words)

	Széchenyi Chain Bridge
		For the proposal of Count Széchenyi, Sina invited William Thirney Clark, the well-known English bridge engineer to come to Pest and to present his ideas about the bridge.
		Clark had three versions, all of them were chain bridges, and they were prepared to different sites for crossing the Danube.
		At the same time an other, also well-know English bridge engineer, George Rennie was invited by Wodianer to come to Pest, who presented four alternative proposals.
	www.angelfire.com /me/hl1235/danubeb8.html (935 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The present London Bridge stands about sixty yards higher up the river than the old bridge (removed in 1832).
		It was designed by John Rennie, a Scottish Engineer, begun in 1825 under the superintendance of his sons, Sir John and George Rennie, and completed in 1831.
		The total outlay including the cost of the approaches was about £2,000,000.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/art/architecture/feist/30.html (242 words)

	George Rennie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I had a wonderful time, since not only did all the engines have my initials (again), but there was even one called "George"!
		Daddy and I had a go on "George's" footplate and I tried the regulator.
		Granny bought us a tea towel with GWR engines on it which I think I will carry around for a while.
	www.corrishill.co.uk /200402.html (568 words)

	George Rennie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I got to meet "Mallard" (the world's fastest steam train which did 126 mph), "Flying Scotsman" (the world's most famous steam train) and "City of Truro" (the first steam train to exceed 100mph in 1904) in person which was wonderful.
		This was a little tricky as I haven't yet got the hang of steering so kept careering into the hedges on the side of the road when we went for an excursion!
		Susannah and Cameron though my Thomas train was great and spent the afternoon chasing it when we were not going for train rides behind George the tram.
	www.corrishill.co.uk /200406.html (638 words)

	NOTES ON THE SURNAME DENNING
		Blackman, DAVID STUART RENNIE, Esq., of this town, to SUSAN, daughter of the late NEWMAN W. HOYLES, Esq., late Colonial Treasurer of this island.).
		This is the last will of me David Stuart Rennie of Saint John’s Newfoundland.- I bequeathe to my brother William F. Rennie One hundred pounds.
		Notes for NEWMAN MCCRAWLEY EBSARY: Newman was married to Sarah Hynes (Hinds)(daughter of Joseph Hynes (Hinds) of St John's)25 May 1880, by Rev. Lednyer at the United Church in St John's.
	www.angelfire.com /hi3/ebsary/denningnotes.html (9594 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Student Scholarship March 30th2Must intend to major in Water Polllution Control, 1Environmental Science, Engineering, or Chemistry.NH Society of Professional EngineersMin.
		No paper applications accepted.Name of ScholarshipDeadlineAmountCriteriaAES Engineers ScholarshipSept. 15th of next yearDScholarships are intended for "future leaders across a wide spectrumBof fields of study".
		You are not required to be taking Engineeringcourses to be eligible.
	www.mansd.org /memorial/mainsite/bb/guidance/scholar.xls (1021 words)

	New Letters and Memorials Vol. 2-1/L111-158/p1-120
		For the rest, home is always pleasantest to me after a long sojourn in a grand House; and solitude, never so welcome as after a spell of brilliant people.
		One brilliant person at a time and a little of him is a charming thing; but a whole houseful of brilliant people, shining all day and every day, makes one almost of George Sand's opinion, that good honest stupidity is the best thing to associate with.
		George Welsh is coming to stay at Richmond with her Son, thro' the Winter, at least.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/carlyle/newlam/nlm201.html (19445 words)

	George Rennie (1791-1866), Civil engineer
		Civil engineer; son of John Rennie and brother of Sir John Rennie; supervised the mechanical side of the family engineering business.
		The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		This page has been parsed by a modified version of the BBC's Betsie version 1.5, with thanks.
	www.npg.org.uk /betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03747 (89 words)

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