Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer

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Excerpt from Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Fellow of the Astronomical Society of London, Member of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, of the Wernerian Natural History Society, and of the Institution of Civil En The addresses made to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institution of Civil Engineers, at the opening meetings of the session - 1851, contained obituary notices of Robert Stevenson. The late Alan Stevenson, his oldest son, also wrote a short Memoir of his father, which was printed for private circulation. But Robert Stevenson's long practice as a Civil Engineer - the important works he executed - and the valuable contributions he made to Engineering and Scientific literature, seem to me to require a fuller notice of his life than has hitherto been given. This has been attempted in the following Memoir, which will be found to consist of extracts from Mr. Stevenson's Professional Reports - of notes from his Diary - and of communications to Scientific Journals and Societies, between the years 1798 and 1843, when he retired from active practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.