William Jessop
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish civil engineer (1745-1814)
ScientistsLived 1745 to 1814 · aged 69
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William Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Photos 7
The Grand Canal in Dublin.
Sketch Map Showing Butterley Tunnel in Context with the Rest of the Cromford Canal
Butterley Company plate in St Pancras station
The Cosgrove aqueduct
West India Docks by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson (figures) from Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London, or, London in Miniature (1808-11).
Newark Castle and Bridge in the early 19th century.Scientists born in the 1740s 6
About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1745 to 1814 · aged 69
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