Reports of the Late John Smeaton

Reports of the Late John Smeaton
Author: John Smeaton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108069800

Published 1812-14, this illustrated four-volume set contains the reports and technical papers of Britain's foremost eighteenth-century civil engineer.

Cavendish

Cavendish
Author: Christa Jungnickel
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838754450

"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 Vol 4

The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 Vol 4
Author: Neil Chambers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040236006

A record of fifty years of intellectual and technological activity. This record provides an insight into the development of science and discovery from the Eighteenth to the early Nineteenth Century. It links British science and society to developments on the continent of Europe, the West Indies, North America and to countries farther afield.

Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735-1835

Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735-1835
Author: Ted Ruddock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1979-05-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521218160

This book is a comprehensive history of bridge building during the century.

The Smeatonians

The Smeatonians
Author: Garth Watson
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1989
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727715265

The history of the Society is traced from its formation in 1771 to bring together engineers "in a friendly way". The lives of the founding members are described as well as the growing status of civil engineering. The book includes original documents and letters.