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Thomas Telford (born August 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scotland—died September 2, 1834, London, England) was a versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning achievement was the design and construction (1819–26) of the Menai Bridge in Wales.
Thomas Telford (Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, 9 de agosto de 1757 - Westminter, 2 de septiembre de 1834) fue un cantero, arquitecto e ingeniero civil y notable constructor de puentes, caminos y canales escocés.
Telford also undertook highway works in the Scottish Lowlands, including 184 miles (296 km) of new roads and numerous bridges, ranging from a 112 ft (34 m) span stone bridge across the Dee at Tongueland in Kirkcudbright (1805–06) to the 129 ft (39 m) tall Cartland Crags bridge near Lanark (1822).
Thomas Telford. 1757 – 1834. During his prodigious life, Thomas Telford was credited with building over 1,000 miles of roadway, 1,000 bridges, 40 harbors and piers, and numerous canals. The fact that Telford had little formal training in engineering makes his achievements even more striking.
His cast-iron bridges such as Craigellachie reached unprecedented standards of economy and elegance. He took the art of bridge design to new levels, with the epoch-making Menai Suspension Bridge. His practical approach, underpinned with theoretical acuity (in advance of modern structural mechanics) and evidence through experimentation, earned ...
22 de jul. de 2019 · In 1790 he designed a bridge carrying the London–Holyhead road over the River Severn at Montford, the first of some 40 bridges he built in Shropshire, including major crossings of the Severn at Buildwas, and Bridgnorth. The bridge at Buildwas was Telford's first iron bridge.
Thomas Telford, civil engineer who lived 1757-1834, was the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
