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Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines, &c. : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works, canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains, plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works, with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates

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Object Details

editor

Simms, Frederick Walter 1803-1865

author

Elmes, James 1782-1862

publisher

Weale, John 1791-1862

printers

Cole and Taylor

former owner

United States Patent Office Scientific Library DSI
Library of Congress DSI
United States Bureau of Topographical Engineers DSI
United States Bureau of Public Roads Library DSI

Subject

London and North-Western Railway

Notes

Half-title.
Engraved title page with pictorial vignette, "London & Birmingham Railway Station Watford."
Engraved plates and text illustrations numbered in one sequence.
Part 4 has separate, engraved title page: "A scientific, historical and commercial survey of the harbour and port of London," by James Elmes.
Colophon: Cole and Taylor, printers.
With errata slip bound-in at end.

Contents

Text in four divisions, separately paged: I. Railways, locomotive engines, and carriages. II. Canals, wharf walls, bridges, and the docks and port of Liverpool. III. Turnpike roads, iron, steel, and gas works. IV. The port and docks of London

Date

1838
19th century

Call number

TA57 .S56 1838 folio
TA57.S59X

Type

Books
Pictorial works

Physical description

[5], viii-xii, 72, 32, 24, 70 pages, [142] leaves of plates (7 folded or double) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm

Place

Great Britain
England
London

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Railroads--History
Railroad engineering--History
Civil engineering--History
Canals--Design and construction
Bridges--Design and construction
Blast furnaces--Design and construction
Docks
Wharves

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_sil_49657
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