John Rennie, 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer

Aberdeen abutments actual Albion Mills Andrew Meikle appears arch stones architect architecture Avon Canal beam Bell Rock Lighthouse Boulton & Watt Bruce Tunnel building built buttresses carried cast cast-iron bridge Civil Engineers Claverton Pumping Station Clerk Company contractors contracts corn mill cost course Drainage drawings Dundas Aqueduct earthwork East India Docks Edinburgh embankment erected executed extensions extrados George graceful Harbour horizontal improvements interest invented inverted arches iron James Watt joints Kennet and Avon Lancaster Canal later Leith letter Lune Aqueduct machinery machines masonry miles millwright Navigation never parapet Phantassie pier Plans and estimate Plate practical proportion proposed railway recommends Rennie prepared Rennie's Report and estimate resident engineer Ribble Aqueduct River road Robert Stevenson Robison Rochdale Canal scheme shows side Sir John Rennie Soho span spandrel steam engines structures Superintendent supplied Thames tion TRUSS Tunnel Waterloo Bridge Waterworks wedge theory wing walls writing