Large octavo, 378 pages, index, illustrated. Contains: Skempton: Canals & River Navigations before 1750; Fairclough: The Waltham Pound Lock; Hadfield: Rivers & Canals; Schofield: The Construction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 1794-1811; Broadbridge: John Pinkerton & the Birmingham Canals; Penfold: Managerial Organization on the Caledonian Canal, 1802-1822; Redondi: Along the Water - the Genius & the Theory. D'Alembert, Condorcet and Bossut and the Picardy Canal Controversy; Wylie: Poverty, Distress & Disease - Labour and the Construction of the Rideau Canal; Chrimes: Hugh McIntosh (1768-1840), National Contractor; Lee: Some Railway Facts & Fallacies; Sharman: The Influence of Landowners on Route Selection; Smith: England's First Rails - A Reconsideration; Riden: The Butterley Company & Railway Construction, 1790-1830; Skempton & Andrews: Cast Iron Edge-Rails at Walker Colliery, 1798; Skempton: Embankments & Cuttings on the Early Railways; Brooke: The Railway Navvy - A Reassessment; Pollins: Railway Contractors and the Finance of Railway Development in Britain; Stapleton: The Origin of American Railroad Technology, 1825-1840; White: Tracks & Timber