biography
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| lived:
| (1745–1814)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Devonport, Devon, SW England, UK. He worked under John Smeaton on canals in Yorkshire and elsewhere. With others he founded the Butterley Iron Works in 1790, and began to manufacture fish-bellied cast-iron rails which marked an important advance in railway track technology. He was involved as chief engineer on the construction of the Grand Junction Canal with its mile-long tunnel at Blisworth, the Surrey Iron Railway (1802), Avon docks at Bristol, and the West India Docks on the Thames. His works put him in the front rank of early British civil engineers. |
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