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See also:TREDGOLD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1788-1829) , See also:English engineer, was See also:born at See also:Brandon, near See also:Durham, on the 22nd of See also:August 1788, and at the See also:age of fourteen was apprenticed to a See also:carpenter. In 1808 he went to See also:Scotland, and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment, in See also:London with an architect. He began to practice as a See also:civil engineer on his own See also:account in 1823, but much of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was devoted to the preparation of his See also:engineering See also:text-books, which gained a wide reputation. They included Elementary Principles of See also:Carpentry (182o), almost the first See also:book of its See also:kind in English; See also:Practical See also:Treatise on the Strength of See also:Cast See also:Iron and other Metals (1824); Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824); Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages (1825); and The See also:Steam See also:Engine (1827). He died in London on the 28th of See also:January 1829.
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