Reports of the Late John Smeaton


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







Cavendish


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"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


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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


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