Thomas Telford
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1757
- Died
- 1834
- Works
- 10
Top works
- A copy of a letter to the secretary of the British Society from Mr. Thomas Telford, their engineer, &c. &c
- Report respecting the mail-road between the city of Edinburgh and town of Morpeth
- Reports on the means of improving the supply of water for the city of Edinburgh
- Observations by the Union Canal Committee on the objections made by the inhabitants of Leith to this undertaking
- An account of the improvements of the Port of London
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
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- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1757-08-09 ) 9 August 1757, Glendinning, Westerkirk, Eskdale , Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- Died
- 2 September 1834 (1834-09-02) (aged 77), Westminster , London, England
- Discipline
- Civil
- Institutions
- Founder and first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1818)
- Projects
- Caledonian Canal Göta Canal Ellesmere Canal Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Shrewsbury Canal Menai suspension bridge A5 road
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 9 August 1757
- Died
- 2 September 1834
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of death
- Westminster
- Occupation
- engineer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
- ThomasTelford.jpg
Article
Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads' (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death. The town of Telford in Shropshire was named after him.
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1757 births1834 deaths19th-century Scottish autobiographersBritish bridge engineersBritish canal engineersBurials at Westminster AbbeyCommons link from WikidataFellows of the Royal SocietyFellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghHarbour engineersMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesPeople from Dumfries and Galloway