{"topic":"tredgold","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-tredgold","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Tredgold","normalized_title":"tredgold","slug":"tredgold","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"TREDGOLD, THOMAS (1788-1829), English engineer, was born at Brandon, near Durham, on the 22nd of August 1788, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a carpenter. In 1808 he went to Scotland, and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment in London with an architect. He began to practice as a civil engineer on his own account in 1823, but much of his time was devoted to the preparation of his engineering text-books, which gained a wide reputation. They included Elementary Principles of Carpentry (1820), almost the first book of its kind in English; Practical Treatise on the Strength of Cast Iron and other Metals (1824) ; Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824); Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages ( 1825); and The Steam Engine (1827). He died in London on the a8th of January 1829.","body_html":"<p>TREDGOLD, THOMAS (1788-1829), English engineer, was born at Brandon, near Durham, on the 22nd of August 1788, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a carpenter. In 1808 he went to Scotland, and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment in London with an architect. He began to practice as a civil engineer on his own account in 1823, but much of his time was devoted to the preparation of his engineering text-books, which gained a wide reputation. They included Elementary Principles of Carpentry (1820), almost the first book of its kind in English; Practical Treatise on the Strength of Cast Iron and other Metals (1824) ; Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824); Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages ( 1825); and The Steam Engine (1827). He died in London on the a8th of January 1829.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v27","page_range_label":"Vol. 27, pp. 234-234","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/page/n255/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://ia903207.us.archive.org/15/items/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"234","label":"p. 234","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_0256.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri27chisrich_0256.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/page/n255/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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