Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Early life; 2. Subordinate employments; 3. The railway engineer, 1844–50; 4. Professional characteristics and work, 1850–60; 5. The Nene improvement and Norfolk Estuary; 6. Metropolitan Railway; 7. President of the Institution of Civil Engineers; 8. Mr Fowler and General Garibaldi; 9. A proposal for a Channel ferry; 10. Egypt; 11. The Forth Bridge; 12. The engineer at home; Appendix; Index.

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A biography, published in 1900, of the great railway engineer responsible for the Forth Bridge and the first underground railway.