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	Index of Engineers and Surveyors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cartwright, Thomas Engineer of the Worcester & Birmingham from 1791 to 1807.
		Nightingale, John Engineer on the Manchester, Bolton & Bury.
		Trew, John Engineer of the Exeter Canal from 1563.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Engindex.html (980 words)

	Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Rennie, John Sir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		He was asked by John Parker, proprietor of the Cann slate quarry, to survey for a canal from there to the new bridge over the River Plym at Marsh Mills, from where barges could reach Plymouth on the tide.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Engineers13.html (3940 words)

	Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Timmins, Benjamin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was appointed engineer to build a short Canal Extension Railway from the canal basin to the Sneyd's railway.
		He was engineer, with George Stephenson, for a proposed Manchester To Sowerby Bridge railway that was to run parallel to the canal between Todmorden and Littleborough.
		Engineer and inventor of the separate condenser for steam engines.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Engineers16.html (2873 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Summer 2004 - Refractions
		Biographies of engineers are not nearly as common as those of politicians and other public figures, and perhaps this paucity accounts in part for the stereotype of the engineer as a technician without a personality.
		But engineers are, of course, human beings first, and, like all human beings, not only do they have personalities, but also some of them have very endearing and exemplary ones indeed.
		In 1857, Smiles published The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer, which is as much a history of the entrepreneurial adventure as of a man inseparably associated with its early development.
	www.prism-magazine.org /may04/refractions.cfm (702 words)

	John Rennie Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Canal Engineers - William Jessup,James Smeaton, John Rennie
		John Smeaton was the first Englishman to describe himself as a "Civil Engineer".
		John Rennie was a new type of university trained engineer, having studied at Edinburgh University from 1780 to 1783.
		Rennie's last project was London Bridge but it was unfinished when he died in 1821.
	www.starling101.btinternet.co.uk /canals/engineers_ver2.htm (510 words)

	Canal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The civil engineering that went on during the fifty years of the canal boom was on a scale unprecedented in Britain.
		The most important engineers were probably mining engineers who had the difficult job of digging the mines and removing the water that flooded them, so much so that a contemporary definition of an engineer was "Engineers make engines for raising of water by fire...
		He was engineer on the Grand Junction (Grand Union Canal) and Ellesmere (Llangollen Canal) Canals and on the Rochdale Canal.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/engineer.htm (956 words)

	Yapirehberi.net 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.yapirehberi.net /Quotes.htm (3316 words)

	The Story of the Southern Railway
		WATERLOO STATION IN 1910 was the terminus of the London and South Western Railway, the largest of the constituent railways embodied in the amalgamation of the Southern group.
		A railway scheme was substituted in consequence and in 1831 there was issued the prospectus of the Southampton, London and Branch Railway and Dock Company, which intended to build a dock at Southampton as well as a railway.
		The overall length of engine and tender is 58 ft. 9-1/2 in.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r056.html (5711 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.
		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)

	East-West Corridor
		Rennie was originally a refuelling stop for CPR locomotives.
		Here she cared for railway and lumber workers and other pioneers of the district, often travelling by canoe, horse, sleigh, foot or locomotive hand-car to reach her patients.
		The Rennie River flows between the town and the Whiteshell Provincial Park boundary to Hart Lake in the north of the park.
	laverendryetrail.mb.ca /ew_corridor.html (2045 words)

	John Rennie (son) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 3, 1874) was a son of engineer John Rennie and brother of George Rennie.
		Although he was the younger of John Rennie's sons, he was chosen to carry out his father's design for London Bridge between 1824 and 1831.
		He and his brother George were involved in the construction of George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Rennie_(son) (129 words)

	London and Brighton Railway
		After the success of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a group of businessmen decided to build a railway between the town and London.
		Rennie suggested a direct line between London and Brighton, whereas Bidder favoured a route that avoided steep gradients and tunnels.
		The directors of the London and Brighton Railway realised the importance of linking Brighton with the harbour at Shoreham and a branch railway to it was constructed at the same time as the main line.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAbrighton.htm (1065 words)

	BBC - History - Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 1894)
		De Lesseps had been inspired by reading about Napoleon's abandoned plans for a canal that would allow large ships wishing to sail to the east to go directly from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, thereby cutting out the long sea journey around Africa.
		De Lesseps' scheme was backed by an international commission of engineers, but failed to win the support of the British government, despite de Lesseps making a number of trips to London.
		De Lesseps was no engineer - his achievement lay in organising the necessary political and financial backing, and providing the technical support necessary for such a huge project.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/lesseps_ferdinand_de.shtml (460 words)

	London and Birmingham Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Le Count, the first Assistant Secretary of the London Birmingham railway, produced a number of - possibly hyperbolic - comparisons in an effort to demonstrate that the London and Birmingham Railway was "the greatest public work ever executed either in ancient or modern times".
		The railway, excluding a long string of tasks - drainage, ballasting andc - involved the lifting of 25,000,000,000 cubic feet of material reduced to the weight of stone used in the pyramid.
		In passing, he also noted that the cost of the railway in penny pieces, was enough to more than form a belt of pennies around the equator; and the amount of material moved would be enough to build a wall one foot high by one foot wide, more than three times around the equator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_and_Birmingham_Railway (937 words)

	British locomotive manufacturers
		In 1833 tendered unsuccessfully for stationary engine for Swannington Incline.
		16 and 17) to Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
		John Jones had been a partner in Jones, Turner and Evans and when that organization ceased trading in 1852 he commenced building on his own in 1853 and continued through to 1863 continuing the Viaduct Foundry numbers from 292 to 342.
	www.steamindex.com /manlocos/manulist.htm (13707 words)

	Scotland: Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Engineer and inventor of the two-stroke Clerk Cycle Gas Engine (1877).
		After religious disputes with John Knox and political intrigue involving her nobles, she was imprisoned and forced to abdicate in 1567 in favour of her son James VI.
		The tyre was re-invented by John Dunlop in 1888.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/greatscots.html (6448 words)

	BBC - History - Joseph Bazalgette (1819 - 1891)
		As chief engineer to London's metropolitan board of works in the mid 19th century, Bazalgette had a significant impact both on London's appearance and, through his design of an efficient sewage system, on the health of its inhabitants.
		Bazalgette began his career as a railway engineer, gaining considerable experience in land drainage and reclamation.
		The board was the first organisation to supervise public works in a unified way over the whole city, and it elected Joseph Bazalgette as its first, and only, chief engineer.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/bazalgette_joseph.shtml (377 words)

	NRM \| Collections \| The Archive Collection
		These sources include material from many of the railway companies, nationalized industries, associated industries and from members of the public.
		This share certificate dates from the early 1840s, the period of the 'railway mania' when a fever of speculative investment in raliway schemes swept the country.
		It should be noted that, although there is a programme of conservation, certain documents and collections may not be available, due to their fragile condition.
	www.nrm.org.uk /collections/archives.asp (375 words)

	Bath -- Europe Travel
		Around 1490 Prior John Cantlow built the present chancel of the church, leaving his portrait and coat of arms in the east window.
		In the Avon valley south-west of Bath, including the area shown in the image, the classic geographical example of a valley with all four forms of ground transport is found: road, rail, river, and the canal.
		The opening of the Great Western Railway in 1841 relieved the canal of much of its traffic, and in 1846 the railway company took over the running of the canal, levying high tolls until the canal was hardly used.
	europe-chronicle.com /general-info/travel/britain/bath (2722 words)

	Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LandMR) was the world's first intercity passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and operated for most of the distance solely by steam locomotives.
		There was thus a division in the LandMR board between those who supported Stephenson's "loco-motive" and those who favoured cable haulage, the latter supported by the opinion of the engineer, John Rastrick.
		In 1845 the LandMR was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway; the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway (2276 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		George Rennie, civil and railway engineer, c 1850-1859.
		George Rennie, British railway and marine engineer, 1854-1866.
		The Brighton Terminus of the London & Brighton Railway, c 1845.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?txtkeys1=Rennie (91 words)

	Yapirehberi.net Unlu Muhendisler (Yabanci)
		Paolo Frisi 1728 - 1784, Mathematician and Hydraulic Engineer
		William John Maquorn Rankine 1820 - 1872, Engineer and Physicist
		George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson 1781-1848; 1803 - 1859, Railway Engineers
	www.yapirehberi.net /Unlumuh.htm (240 words)

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