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Telford, Thomas
engineer; b. Aug. 9, 1757 (in Scotland); d. Sept. 2, 1834.
He was apprenticed to a stone mason, and in 1780 went to Edinburgh. After 1782 he was employed on Somerset House in London. Between 1795 and 1805 he constructed the Ellesmere canal, with its great aqueduct, and between 1773 and 1823 the Caledonian canal in Scotland. He made the roads in the highlands of Scotland, with about twelve hundred bridges. His name is associated with a peculiar form of pavement for roads.
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