Roads, tramroads, and railroads; bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, wharfs, warehouses, roofs, and sheds; canals, locks, sluices, and the various works on rivers, streams, & c., & c.; harbors, docks, piers and jetties, tunnels, cuttings and embankments; the several works connected with the drainage of marshes, marine sands, and the irrigation of land; water-works, gas-works, water-wheels, mills, engines, & c., & c
Samuel Charles Brees compiled this 1840 London engineering handbook from the Library of Science and Art, published by John Williams, for civil engineers and contractors working on roads, railways, canals, harbours and waterworks. Its plates are measured technical drawings of timber piles, bracing and wall construction, plus one engraved view of a railway viaduct over a river, which a designer could use for period engineering diagrams and line-drawn structural motifs.
