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	John Rennie - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN RENNIE (1761-1821), British engineer, was the youngest son of James Rennie, a farmer at Phantassie, Haddingtonshire, where he was born on the 7th of June 1761.
		As a canal engineer his services began to be in request about 1790, and the Avon and Kennet, the Rochdale and the Lancaster canals may be mentioned among his numerous works in England.
		As a bridge engineer he was responsible for many structures in England and Scotland, among the most conspicuous being three over the Thames - Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge and London Bridge - the last of which he did not live to see completed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Rennie (440 words)

	BBC - History - John Rennie (1761 - 1821)
		Rennie's work on canals, aqueducts, bridges and dockyards mark him as one of the greatest engineers of his age.
		Rennie was born on 7 June 1761, the fourth son of a prosperous farmer on the Phantassie estate near the village of East Linton, 20 miles east of Edinburgh.
		Rennie died on 4 October 1821 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/rennie_john.shtml (349 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.
		The peculiar talents of young Rennie seem to have been called forth and fostered by his proximity to the workshop of the celebrated mechanic, Andrew Meikle, the inventor or improver of the thrashing-machine.
		Mr Rennie was gradually attracted from the profession of a mechanician to that of an engineer.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/rennie_john.htm (1648 words)

	Rennie Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
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	genforum.genealogy.com /rennie/all.html (5822 words)

	Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands
		Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands Allan McCandlish 6/16/05
		Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands Allan McCandlish 5/21/05
		Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands Allan McCandlish 5/28/05
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /rennie/messages/732.html (719 words)

	John Rennie: Enlightenment Engineer
		Rennie was one of the Industrial Revolution's leading engineers, along with John Smeaton and Thomas Telford.
		Born on June 7, 1761, the son of a Scottish farmer, Rennie apprenticed to a millwright and then attended Edinburgh University for three years, where he studied with John Robison and Joseph Black (who had been Watt's teacher and patron at the University of Glasgow).
		Despite his background and success as a millwright, Rennie soon turned away from mechanical engineering and devoted the majority of his career to civil-engineering projects: canals, docks, harbors, and bridges.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /cth--928-John_Rennie_Enlightenment_Engineer.aspx (994 words)

	Canal Engineers
		The civil engineering that went on during the fifty years of the canal boom was on a scale unprecedented in Britain.
		He was engineer on the Grand Junction (Grand Union Canal) and Ellesmere (Llangollen Canal) Canals and on the Rochdale Canal.
		John Rennie was a new type of university trained engineer.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/engineer.htm (956 words)

	Canal Engineers - William Jessup,James Smeaton, John Rennie
		John Smeaton was the first Englishman to describe himself as a "Civil Engineer".
		William Jessup was the son of a naval engineer.
		John Rennie was a new type of university trained engineer, having studied at Edinburgh University from 1780 to 1783.
	www.starling101.btinternet.co.uk /canals/engineers_ver2.htm (510 words)

	UK Civil Engineering Quotes
		I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
		Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
		Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.
	www.ukcivilengineering.co.uk /quotes.html (2118 words)

	John Rennie: Enlightenment Engineer
		Rennie began his professional career by building the Albion Flour Mill for James Watt and Matthew Boulton.
		Indeed, after the retirement of the great John Smeaton in 1791, Rennie was so frequently consulted about civil-engineering projects that it is hard to see how he was able to handle them all.
		But the high point of Rennie's career was undoubtedly his bridges, and, in particular, his bridges over the Thames.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /ct-928-John_Rennie_Enlightenment_Engineer.aspx (994 words)

	White Hart Inn
		John Bassett remained at the inn and prospered.
		It was around this period that the civi1 engineer John Rennie who had built the Waterloo, Southwark and London bridges and was a consulting engineer on the Royal Military Canal, stayed at the "White Hart".
		John Cobay kept the "White Hart" for the remainder of the 19th century and into the 20th.
	www.hythe-kent.com /whthart1.htm (878 words)

	Lancaster Canal Trust - John Rennie
		Rennie was born in 1761, in the decade that also saw the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Duke of Wellington.
		Meikle was to have a great deal of influence on the young John Rennie who became his apprentice after leaving school at the age of 12.
		Rennie died in 1821 at the age of 61 but his work lives on and is nowhere better demonstrated than in the well-built bridges and magnificent aqueducts of the Lancaster Canal.
	www.lctrust.co.uk /pages/the-canal/history/john-rennie.php (566 words)

	bath4u - Kennet and Avon Canal - the roots
		John Hore was called in and work began on the river from its current terminus at Hanham Mills (near Bristol) to Bath.
		Rennie was asked to take a detailed survey of the route but when he reported back he said a more southerly route via Devizes would be preferred because the original route would have too many water supply problems.His new line closely followed the Avon all the way into Bath.
		John Rennie was appointed Chief Engineer and the canal proved to be his greatest work.
	www.bath4u.com /kennet_and_avon/bath4u_KandA_Roots.htm (3024 words)

	John Rennie: Enlightenment Engineer
		Rennie was one of the Industrial Revolution's leading engineers, along with John Smeaton and Thomas Telford.
		Born on June 7, 1761, the son of a Scottish farmer, Rennie apprenticed to a millwright and then attended Edinburgh University for three years, where he studied with John Robison and Joseph Black (who had been Watt's teacher and patron at the University of Glasgow).
		Despite his background and success as a millwright, Rennie soon turned away from mechanical engineering and devoted the majority of his career to civil-engineering projects: canals, docks, harbors, and bridges.
	www.atlassociety.com /cth--928-John_Rennie_Enlightenment_Engineer.aspx (1002 words)

	Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands
		John Rennie had 6 children (I think there were also 3 that died during birth or as infants)
		Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands Allan McCandlish 6/14/05
		Re: John Rennie - ENGINEER - Rennies of New Monklands Allan McCandlish 5/29/05
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /rennie/messages/742.html (426 words)

	London RIB Voyages - River Thames Tour Itinerary
		John Harvard, one of the founders of the Harvard Line, and a pilgrim father who went to America on the Mayflower, is buried in the graveyard.
		The current version of London Bridge was designed by engineer John Rennie and completed by his son (of the same name) over a seven-year period from 1824 to 1831.
		The Bridge was constructed from Dartmoor granite, with a length of 928 feet and a width of 49 feet.
	www.londonribvoyages.com /route.php (1850 words)

	JOHN RENNIE (1761–1821) - Online Information article about JOHN RENNIE (1761–1821)
		John Robison (1739–1805), his teacher at Edinburgh, to super-intend the construction of the machinery for the See also:
		mechanical engineer, and soon secured him a large business as a maker of millwork of all descriptions.
		John completed the construction of London Bridge, and at its opening in 1831 was made a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RAY_RHU/RENNIE_JOHN_17611821_.html (925 words)

	John Rennie Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Rennie was born the fourth son of a wealthy farmer on the Phantassie estate close to the village of East Linton in East Lothian.
		Rennie's largest works were probably his harbours, and he was responsible for the building of West India Dock, and Blackwall Dock in London; as well as major docks in Hull, Liverpool, Dublin, Greenock and Leith; naval dockyards at Portsmouth, Chatham and Devonport; and lesser harbours at
		John Rennie died in London in 1821 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/johnrennie.html (468 words)

	Engineering Timelines - explore ... where
		Scottish engineer John Rennie's five-arched granite bridge of 1831 was the immediate successor to Old London Bridge, which, after 600 years of service, had become a danger to shipping.
		John Rennie's two sons, George and John, submitted a design that he had made before his death in 1821.
		John Rennie was knighted on completion of the project — the first consulting engineer to be so honoured, though his father (John Rennie senior) had been offered a knighthood 14 years earlier and declined it.
	www.engineering-timelines.com /scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=664 (718 words)

	John Rennie
		John Rennie (7 June 1761 - 4 October 1821) was a civil engineer from East Linton, Scotland.
		A farmer's son, he worked first as a millwright with noted mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle (inventor of the threshing machine), then attended Edinburgh University (1780-1783) and began work as an engineer with James Watt in 1783.
		Rennie died in London in 1821 and he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_rennie.html (179 words)

	john rennie
		But although Rennie was to become, along with Thomas Telford, the most celebrated civil engineer of his age, it was from unlikely beginnings.
		Rennie was born a farmer’s son on 7 June, 1761, in East Lothian.
		On his journey south, Rennie took the opportunity of examining some of the new engineering wonders of the day – the aqueduct bridge at Lancaster, the docks at Liverpool, and the works on the Bridgewater canal.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /rennie.htm (1031 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This gave Smith a testable hypothesis, which he termed The Principle of Faunal Succession, and he began his search to determine if the relationships between the strata and their characteristics were consistent throughout the country.
		During subsequent travels, first as a surveyor (appointed by noted engineer John Rennie) for the canal company until 1799 when he was dismissed, and later, he was continually taking samples and mapping the locations of the various strata, and displaying the vertical extent of the strata, and drawing cross-sections and tables of what he saw.
		John Phillips, Memoirs of William Smith (1844, republished with additional material by Hugh Torrens, 2003 ISBN 0-9544941-0-5).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=William_Smith_(geologist) (997 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Who Built the Bell Rock Lighthouse?
		It is a matter of impossibility that engineers in extensive practice should personally superintend the various structures designed by them, and which are proceeding at the same time in different parts of the country.
		Hence the appointment, at their recommendation, of superintendents or resident engineers, whose business it is to see that the details of the design are faithfully carried out, and that the work is executed in all respects according to the chief engineer's designs and instructions.
		John Rennie's Report is given in full as an Appendix at the end of the "Account".
	www.bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_who.htm (3289 words)

	Rennie, John :: Bridge Builders : Gourt
		John Rennie (cricketer) (born 1970), a former Zimbabwean Test and ODI cricketer
		John Rennie - Brief biography with portrait from the BBC historic figures.
		John Rennie was the man brought in to replace it.
	science.gourt.com /Technology/Structural-Engineering/Bridge/History/Bridge-Builders/Rennie,-John.html (195 words)

	Henry Bell - Plagiarism on Wikipedia
		After this he went to Borrowstounness (Bo'ness) to learn ship modelling, then was employed in engineering mechanics in Glasgow, then went to London, where he worked and studied under the Scottish engineer John Rennie.
		In 1811 Bell got John Wood, shipbuilder in Port Glasgow, to agree to build a paddle steamer, and in 1812 the Comet began a passenger steamboat service on the River Clyde between Glasgow, Greenock and Helensburgh.
		Bell briefly took the Comet on the Firth of Forth, then had the Comet lengthened and re-engined and from September 1819 ran a service to Oban and Fort William, but in 1820 the Comet was shipwrecked near Oban.
	www.wikipedia-watch.org /plagiarism/0634.html (432 words)

	Early 19th Century to Victorian
		A few years later in 1814, famed engineer John Rennie was given the job of reporting on the dockyard's problems and coming up with solutions.
		Rennie did, in fact, determine that a new river channel should be cut through the flat land across from the dockyard, and that the river's old course be made into a basin able to hold 50 large ships.
		But since Rennie was asked to study making fifth dry dock, and since ships were becoming larger, land would be reclaimed from the river.
	johnsmilitaryhistory.com /chathamvictorian.html (649 words)

	June 7th
		John D'Arcy, one of a small group of eminent men who held a meeting at Whittington, near Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, which was believed to be preparatory in an important degree to the Revolution.
		John D'Arcy, held a meeting in the public-house at Whittington with the Duke of' Devonshire.
		One John Gilder and his wife claimed the flitch in 1772; but when he and his sympathizers arrived at the priory, they found the gates fast; the expectant couple were compelled to go away empty-handed, and the Dunmow festival henceforth was consigned to the limbo of extinct customs.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/june/7.htm (4841 words)

	John Rennie
		John Rennie was a successful engineer and had been responsible for building Waterloo Bridge and Southwick Bridge in London.
		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.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RArennie.htm (195 words)

	Scots engineering expertise - George IV Bridge - celebrating 50 years - National Library of Scotland
		The papers of Scottish engineer John Rennie (1761-1821) were the first engineering papers to come to the National Library of Scotland.
		They consist mainly of the office correspondence of Rennie's engineering business, and the other material left in his office at his death in 1821.
		The Rennie Papers were received in 1970, and were followed by many other technological and scientific collections.
	www.nls.uk /50years/1970.html (198 words)

	Museum Devizes - The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, England — Working to ...
		John Rennie was commissioned to carry out a third survey, reporting back through Robert Whitworth the committee's engineer.
		This time Rennie found that there was in fact insufficient water available on the original Marlborough route and recommended that the canal should be built via Devizes.
		An independent assessment of the proposals, however, was sought from another engineer William Jessop who, in a report later that year, largely agreed with Rennie's proposals but suggested a number of small route changes.
	www.katrust.org /museum_heritage_planning_002.htm (567 words)

	Bust of John Rennie, civil engineer, 1761 - 1821 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Bust of John Rennie, civil engineer, 1761 - 1821
		This bust of John Rennie was made by Francis Legatt Chantrey RA (1781-1841).
		East Lothian born John Rennie set up as a mechanical engineer in London in 1791.
	flickr.com /photos/51316695@N00/261376318 (329 words)

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