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Author: Dodd, B(arrodall) Robert
Title: Introductory report ... on the intended Kent Water-works, for supplying with settled Thames Water, for domestic uses, for watering the roads, and extinguishing of fires, the towns of Greenwich, Deptford, Lewisham, and other contiguous places in want thereof.
Publication: (London, "Robins, printer, 57 Tooley Street" 1807.
Price: Sold
Reference: 11506
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Folio. 3 + (1)pp. In one folded sheet as issued, with printed docket title and date. Somewhat browned and soiled, with minor tears and abrasions, chiefly along old fold lines.
An apparently unrecorded printed report by the civil engineer Barrodall Robert Dodd (c.1780-1837), proposing the construction of water works and two reservoirs on a site adjacent to the river Thames, to provide a water supply to the towns of Greenwich, Deptford and Lewisham. The author, a son of the well-known engineer and writer on engineering Ralph Dodd (c.1756-1822), is himself best known for a proposal in 1810 for the construction of a canal between Newcastle and Hexham. Not in Skempton, British Civil Engineering Literature 1640-1840 (and therefore not held in the British Library or in other major institutional libraries in the United Kingdom).