WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS 



WITH AN 



ACCOUNT OF THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS 



INCLUDING A 



History of Inland Communication in Britain, and the Invention and 

 Introduction of the Steam-Engine and Railway Locomotive. 



VOL. I. EMBANKMENTS AND CANALS VERMUYDEN, MYDDELTON, 



PERRY, BRINDLEY. 

 ,, II. HARBOURS, LIGHTHOUSES, AND BRIDGES SM EATON AND 



RENNIE. 



,, III. HISTORY OF ROADS METCALFE AND TELFORD. 

 ,, IV. THE STEAM-ENGINE BOULTON AND WATT. 

 ,, V. THE LOCOMOTIVE GEORGE AND ROBERT STEPHENSON. 



With Portraits and 342 Illustrations on Wood. 

 5 vols. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. each. 



%* Each Volume may be had separately. 



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 ON THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD VOLUMES. 



"A chapter of English history which had to be written, and which, probably, 

 no one could have written so well. Mr. Smiles has obtained a mass of original 

 materials. It is not too much to say that we now have an Engineers' Pantheon, 

 with a connected narrative of their successive reclamations from sea, bog, and fen ; 

 a history of the growth of the inland communication of Great Britain by means of 

 its roads, bridges, canals, and railways ; and a survey of the lighthouses, break- 

 waters, docks, and harbours constructed for the protection and accommodation of 

 our commerce with the world." Times. 



" We cannot but refer in passing to the captivating and instructive volumes 

 which Mr. Smiles has devoted to the ' Lives of the Engineers,' a record not before 

 attempted of the achievements of a race of men who have conferred the highest 

 honour and the most extensive benefits on their country. ' Who'are the great men 

 of the present age?' said Mr. Bright in the House of Commons, ' Not your 

 warriors not your statesmen, they are your Engineers.' " Edinburgh Review. 



" Mr. Smiles has profoundly studied, and has happily delineated in his lucid 

 and instructive biographies, that remarkable succession of gifted minds which 

 has, not by lucky guesses, but by incessant labour and by lifelong thought, gradu- 

 ally erected that noble example of dominion of man over the earth the science of 

 Engineering ; and we are proud to know that there are men yet among us who can 

 wield the arms of the invincible knights of old, and who will leave no meaner 

 memory behind them." Quarterly Review. 



" Mr. Smiles may fairly claim the merit of having produced one of the most in- 

 teresting and instructive works. He has discovered almost unbroken ground, and 

 has worked it with so much skill and success that his readers will recognise in his 

 volumes an illustration of the truth of Lord Macaulay's Saying, that history, 

 personal or national, may, when properly written, be rendered as interesting as 

 any novel." London Review. 



"In two handsome volumes, richly illustrated and luxuriously printed, Mr. 

 Smiles begins what is in fact a History of the results of Engineering Science in 



