INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers. London, Weale and Inst.C.E., 1836,1838, 1842
4to. 3 vols (all published). xxxii + 282 + xli + (i)pp + (8)pp subscribers' list, engraved portrait frontis of Telford and 27 engraved plates (many double-page) numbered 1-26,1 un-numbered ; (vi) + 240pp, 23 double-page engraved plates ; (viii) + 497 + (1)pp, 19 engraved plates (18 double-page) irregularly numbered, and 6 folding tables in text. Contemporary quarter calf. The first full-length papers on civil engineering published in Britain appeared in these three volumes. The first volume contains a brief biographical survey of the major engineers of the period with 28 papers selected from those read to the Institution, which had been in existence since 1820. These include an account of Hull docks by Timperley, the resident engineer, described by Professor Skempton as "one of the finest job descriptions ever written" as well as papers by Provis, Field and Peter Barlow on lock and lock gates, Farey on the force of steam, James Walker on ventilating and lighting tunnels, William Cubitt on coal and coke at the Ipswich gas works etc. etc. Although the Institution began publishing its "Minutes of Proceedings" these were originally published in abstract with no illustrations and further selected papers, fully illustrated, appeared in the two final volumes of this publication. These include Rendel on a floating bridge over the Hamoaze, Bramah on the strength of cast iron, an account of Telford's Mythe Bridge, George Rennie on the expansion of arches and Provis on the damage to the Menai Bridge in the storm of 1839.
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