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TREDGOLD, THOMAS (1788-1829)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 234 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TREDGOLD, THOMAS (1788-1829) ,
English
  engineer, was born at
Brandon
 , near
Durham
 , on the 22nd of August 1788, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a carpenter. In 1808 he went to
Scotland
 , and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment, in London with an architect. He began to practice as a civil engineer on his own account in 1823, but much of his time was devoted to the preparation of his engineering text-books, which gained a wide reputation. They included Elementary Principles of
Carpentry
  (182o), almost the first book of its kind in
English
 ;
Practical
  Treatise on the Strength of Cast
Iron
  and other Metals (1824); Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824);
Practical
  Treatise on Railroads and Carriages (1825); and The Steam
Engine
  (1827). He died in London on the 28th of January 1829.


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