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Thomas Telford
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Born August 9, 1757 • Scotland
Died September 2, 1834 (aged 77) • London • England
Role In Scottish Enlightenment

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Thomas Telford
Ellesmere Canal
suspension bridge across the River Conwy
Menai Bridge
Telford, Thomas
Pontcysyllte aqueduct; Ellesmere Canal
cross sections of three 18th-century European roads
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John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
Mackinac Bridge
David Barnard Steinman
American engineer
Sir Gilbert Roberts
British engineer
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
McAdam, engraving by Charles Turner
John Loudon McAdam
British inventor
William Fairbairn
British engineer
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Roebling, Emily Warren
Emily Warren Roebling
American socialite, builder, and businesswoman
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Jervis, John Bloomfield: Stourbridge Lion
John Bloomfield Jervis
American engineer
Engineer Gustav Lindenthal (second from right) and his chief assistant, Othmar Ammann (second from left), posing upon the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1916.
Othmar Herman Ammann
American engineer
Washington Augustus Roebling, 1870
Washington Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
Albert Fink
American engineer
Charles Ellet
American engineer
Erie Canal
Benjamin Wright
American engineer
Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
Old Erie Canal
James Geddes
American engineer, lawyer, and politician