444 WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



By the same Author, in 5 vols. crown 8vo, with 9 Steel Portraits 

 and 342 Illustrations on Wood, 



LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS. 



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. 



A New and Revised Edition. 



VOL. I. EMBANKMENTS AND CANALS VERMUYDEN, MYDDELTON, 



PERRY, BRINDLEY. 

 ,, II. HARBOURS, LIGHTHOUSES, AND BRIDGES SMEATON AND 



RENNIE. 



III. HISTORY OF ROADS METCALFE AND TELFORD. 

 IV. THE STEAM-ENGINE BOULTON AND WATT. 

 ,, V. THE LOCOMOTIVE GEORGE AND ROBERT STEPHENSON. 



*** Each volume is complete in itself, and may fee had separately. 



" A chapter of English history which had to be written, and which, probably, no 

 ane could have written so well. Mr. Smiles has obtained a mass of original materials, 

 [t is not too much too 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, breakwaters, docks, and har- 

 bours 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, gradually 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." Quar- 

 terly Review. 



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

 ing 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. 



