Bridging the Years: A Short History of British Civil EngineeringE. Arnold, 1956 - 212 páginas |
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... century the military engineers were too reduced in numbers and far too occupied abroad to be able to help civilian enterprise . The civilian engineer therefore became a separate calling and derived at first only slender support from his ...
... century the military engineers were too reduced in numbers and far too occupied abroad to be able to help civilian enterprise . The civilian engineer therefore became a separate calling and derived at first only slender support from his ...
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... CENTURIES TWENTIETH THE really great age for civil engineering was during the nine- teenth century when Britain led the world in material progress . From the end of the French wars in 1815 to the beginning of World War I in 1914 there ...
... CENTURIES TWENTIETH THE really great age for civil engineering was during the nine- teenth century when Britain led the world in material progress . From the end of the French wars in 1815 to the beginning of World War I in 1914 there ...
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... century and in certain instances caused vast changes in the ever - growing industrial importance of the surrounding districts . The Clyde , for example , was a com- paratively small river and in 1770 was fordable on foot at Dum- buck ...
... century and in certain instances caused vast changes in the ever - growing industrial importance of the surrounding districts . The Clyde , for example , was a com- paratively small river and in 1770 was fordable on foot at Dum- buck ...
Contenido
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
Contracting in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Cen | 89 |
Some Notable British Civil Engineering Works I 1825 | 106 |
Otras 35 secciones no mostradas
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