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Alexander Nimmo, master engineer, 1783-1832 : public works and civil surveys / Noël P. Wilkins ; foreword by Peter B. Heffernan.

Title
Alexander Nimmo, master engineer, 1783-1832 : public works and civil surveys / Noël P. Wilkins ; foreword by Peter B. Heffernan.
Author
Wilkins, Noel P.
Publication
Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2009.

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Description
xiii, 434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans (some col.); 26 cm.
Subject
  • Nimmo, Alexander, 1783-1832
  • 1800-1899
  • Civil engineers > Ireland > Biography
  • Public works > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Surveying > Ireland > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-426) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Peter B. Heffernan -- 1. A Young Man of Considerable Genius and Erudition -- 2. The Inverness Perambulation and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia -- 3. The Bogs Commission, 1809-1813 -- 4. A Kerry Apprenticeship -- 5. First Foray into Connemara -- 6. Major Harbour Engineering: Dunmore and Cork Harbours -- 7. Grand Juries, Nimmo and the Emergence of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland -- 8. A Labyrinth of Legislation: Famine, Relief Work and the Emergence of the Office of Public Works -- 9. The Fisheries Commission and Nimmo's Coastal Survey -- 10. Master of all he Surveyed? Nimmo in Connaught -- 11. Nimmo's Irish Bridges -- 12. Private Commissions in Ireland -- 13. The Wallasey Pool Plan and other Works in Britain -- 14. Making the Way Permanent: Nimmo and Railways -- 15. A Most Humane and Cultivated Man -- App. 1. A Gazetteer of Nimmo's Piers and Harbours -- App. 2. A Listing of Nimmo's Reports, Maps, Plans and Writings and their Locations -- App. 3. Account of all the structural works, and their state of completion, carried on by Nimmo in the western district as listed by him in June 1830 -- App. 4. Statement of the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts in Ireland regarding the Accounts of Alexander Nimmo.
ISBN
  • 9780716529958 (hbk.)
  • 0716529955 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 321013258
  • SCSB-12152364
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