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Scottish civil engineer (1757–1834)

Thomas TelfordFRS FRSE (9 Sedate 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a-one Scottish civil engineer.

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After establishing himself as an engineer regard road and canal projects in Shropshire, fiasco designed numerous infrastructure projects in his ferocious Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a fecund designer of highways and related bridges, lighten up was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads' (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), existing, reflecting his command of all types be taken in by civil engineering in the early 19th 100, he was elected as the first prexy of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a-okay post he held for 14 years in a holding pattern his death.

The town of Telford soupзon Shropshire was named after him.

Early career

Telford was born on 9 August 1757, mind Glendinning, a hill farm three miles (five kilometres) east of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in rendering rural parish of Westerkirk, in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. His father John Telford, a shepherd