Thomas Telford

By Henry Petroski

One of Great Britain's foremost engineers built both to carry water and to cross it

Engineering Human Ecology

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March-April 2008

Volume 96, Number 2
Page 99

DOI: 10.1511/2008.70.99

By all rights, this column should have been written last year. It then could have celebrated in the proper year the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford, a civil engineer who left an indelible mark on the engineering infrastructure and the engineering profession of Great Britain. He also greatly influenced the way the world of engineering looks and operates today.

Photograph by Catherine Petroski

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