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THOMAS TELFORD, the distinguished civil engineer, died at his house at 24 Abingdon Street, Westminster, on September 2, 1834, at the age of seventy-seven years, and a few days later was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. For the last thirteen years of his life he was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and in connexion with the centenary of his death the Institution has arranged an exhibition which was open for inspection at the conversazione this week and will remain open each day at 10 A.M.–5 P.M. until June 22. The materials for the exhibition have been gathered together mainly through the efforts of Sir Alexander Gibb, whose forbears were associated with Telford in some of his works. Telford's whole life was devoted to engineering works of national importance, and his steady rise from a stone mason, working on Somerset House, to the head of his profession, was due to his wide knowledge, energy and sound judgment. He constructed many hundreds of miles of roads, more than a thousand bridges, some of the most important canals in Great Britain and also did valuable work on harbours. His most famous works included the Ellesmere Canal with the great Pont Cysylltau Aqueduct, the wrought iron suspension bridge over the Menai Straits and St.
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Telford Centenary Exhibition. Nature 133, 902 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133902b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133902b0