William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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William Jessop (1745-1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. 1745 January 23rd. Jessop was born in Devonport, Plymouth, to a Derbyshire family, the son of a shipwright Josias Jessop and his wife Elizabeth Foot.

2024年9月11日 · William Jessop (1745 – 1814). A civil engineer, Jessop was involved in many engineering projects including the West India Docks, the Cromford Canal, the Grand Junction Canal and the Ripon Canal. Jessop was known to be a modest man.

William Jessop (1745 – 1814) William Jessop was the son of a naval shipwright. His father Josias had worked with Smeaton on the the third Eddystone Lighthouse and when he died Smeaton took the young William under his wing and trained as an engineer.

2019年1月23日 · Civil engineer William Jessop – best known today for his prodigious work on canals, harbors, and railways – was born in the settlement of Plymouth Dock (now Devenport) in southwestern England.

Civil engineer who worked on the railways. He was chief engineer on the Cromford Canal and the Grand Junction. In 1790 Jessop founded, jointly with partners Benjamin Outram, Francis beresford and John Wright, the Butterley Iron Works in …

William Jessop (1745-1814) was the pupil of John Smeaton, the foundational figure in the history of British civil engineering and, in turn, he became one of the principal engineers of his day. In the English East Midlands, Jessop was responsible for a number of canal schemes forming part of the sys-tem of navigable waterways connected into the ...

William Jessop was an English civil engineer who lived from 1745 to 1814. He is known for his work as a canal engineer and played a significant role in the development of early canals in England. Jessop began his career working with John …

Biography of William Jessop who was recognised as one of Britain's leading engineers in the 1790's.