A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers
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A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, 2002, 897pp, (ISBN 0-7277-2939-X) discusses the lives of the people who were concerned with building harbours and lighthouses, undertook fen drainage and improved river navigations, built canals, roads, bridges and early railways, and provided water supply facilities. Volume one covers the years from 1500 to 1830. Volume two is still being written, as of 2005. The principal editor was Professor A. W. Skempton, and the entries were written by a number of specialist historians.
An 18 page introduction discusses the practice of civil engineering 1500-1830. The work concludes with appendices discussing wages, costs and inflation, a chronology of major civil engineering works, and indices of places and names.
