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Thomas Telford
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Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a British architect, civil engineer, general contractor, and autobiographer. His professional work focused on the construction industry, architecture, hydraulic structures, and ship canals. He is noted for designing the Menai Suspension Bridge, Galton Bridge, and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Telford worked in Edinburgh, Telford, and London.
He held memberships in the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Institution of Civil Engineers. His writings include reports on the mail-road between Edinburgh and Morpeth, improvements to the Port of London, and water supply enhancements for Edinburgh. Telford died in Westminster and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1757
- Died
- 1834
- Works
- 10
Top works
- A copy of a letter to the secretary of the British Society from Mr. Thomas Telford, their engineer, &c. &c
- Report respecting the mail-road between the city of Edinburgh and town of Morpeth
- Reports on the means of improving the supply of water for the city of Edinburgh
- Observations by the Union Canal Committee on the objections made by the inhabitants of Leith to this undertaking
- An account of the improvements of the Port of London
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,174x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,779x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,759x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,030x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,312x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1757-08-09 ) 9 August 1757, Glendinning, Westerkirk, Eskdale , Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- Died
- 2 September 1834 (1834-09-02) (aged 77), Westminster , London, England
- Discipline
- Civil
- Institutions
- Founder and first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1818)
- Projects
- Caledonian Canal Göta Canal Ellesmere Canal Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Shrewsbury Canal Menai suspension bridge A5 road
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads' (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death. The town of Telford in Shropshire was named after him.
Early career
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