Peter Cross-Rudkin spent much of the first half of his career with a contractor on projects in the UK and then became a senior lecturer at Coventry University, now honorary research fellow. He has been a member of ICE’s Panel for Historical Engineering Works for 20 years, a member of the Archives Panel and was a founder member of the CARE Panel. He is a member of the editorial board of the Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers of Great Britain and Ireland, of which two volumes have already been published by Thomas Telford Ltd.
2011 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Rennie. Having trained as a millwright and been the first professional engineer to receive a university education, he was one of the leading engineers in the UK for thirty years. The ICE archives hold thirteen volumes of his reports and other contemporary documents.
The lecture describes some of his most important works, which included the Lune Aqueduct, Rudyard Dam, Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Bell Rock Lighthouse, London Docks, fen drainage, Sheerness Dockyard, Dun Laoghaire Harbour and Plymouth Breakwater.
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Smeaton Lecture - ‘Stupendous and useful’ the life and works of John Rennie (1761-1821)
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