This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
Published / Created:
London : Printed Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, [1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The work was published in 1812 with the title: Reports of the late John Smeaton : F.R.S., made on various occasions in the course of his employment as a civil engineer.
Subject Terms:
Smeaton, John, 1724–1792. Reports of the late John Smeaton. | Civil engineering. | Engineering design. | Canals -- Great Britain -- Planning. | Inland navigation -- Scotland. | Book industries and trade -- Great Britain.