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Brindley and was
The drug Brindley injected into his penis was a non-specific vasodilator, an alpha-blocking agent, and the mechanism of action was clearly corporal smooth muscle relaxation.
The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.
James Brindley, the engineer behind many of the canals in England, did his first canal work on the Trent and Mersey, though his first job in charge of construction was on the Bridgewater Canal.
James Brindley was employed as engineer and work got under way .” ( A quote from Canals, Routes and Roots, The Trent and Mersey Canal, by Peter Hardcastle )
There are actually two tunnels ; the first was built by Brindley and was 2880 yards ( 2633 m ) long, and barges were ' legged ' through by men lying on their backs and pushing against the roof with their feet.
In the 1900s, the Brindley tunnel was closed due to severe subsidence, but the Telford Tunnel-although also prone to the same problems-remains in use, and is the fourth-longest navigable canal tunnel in the United Kingdom.
James Brindley was the chief engineer of the canal, which was part of his Grand Cross plan for waterways connecting Hull, Liverpool and Bristol.
Hugh Henshall, who was the brother-in-law of James Brindley, was asked to re-survey the route in 1792, and recommended a diversion to Newent.
James Brindley was the first to survey a route, which would have run from the Bristol Channel to Exeter, following the course of the River Tone for part of its route.
Leek was the home of James Brindley, the 18th century canal engineer.
James Brindley ( 1716 – 27 September 1772 ) was an English engineer.
Brindley was engaged, at the insistence of Gilbert, to assist with particular problems such as the Barton Aqueduct.
The first sod was cut by Josiah Wedgwood in 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow.
Brindley married Anne Henshall on 8 December 1765 when he was 49 and she was 19.
The inscription on his grave reads " James Brindley, of Turnhurst, Engineer, was interred Sept. 30, 1772, aged 56.
The route of the canal was surveyed by James Brindley and John Varley, who estimated the cost at £ 94, 908 17s.
The canal was a typical Brindley contour canal, following the contours to avoid costly cuttings and embankments, which resulted in a less than direct route in places.
Surveying of the route and initial construction were originally supervised by the celebrated engineer James Brindley, assisted by Samuel Simcock who was also Brindley's brother-in-law.
The standard for the dimensions of narrow canal locks was set by Brindley with his first canal locks, those on the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1776.

Brindley and commissioned
He commissioned the engineer James Brindley to build a canal to do just that.
James Brindley was commissioned to build the canal, and work started on it in December that year.
Against this background, in 1768 a committee of men commissioned James Brindley to survey a route, in the form of a canal, between Taunton and Exeter ; and the survey was duly carried out by Robert Whitworth in 1769.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £ 237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.

Brindley and engineer
The plan of a canal connection from the Mersey to the Trent (" The Grand Trunk ") came from canal engineer James Brindley.
Yeoman had a high standing as a civil engineer, and the opponents to the scheme tried to engage a suitable engineer to counter the proposal, but many of the obvious choices, including James Brindley, declined because they were too busy.
James Brindley was the engineer charged with building the canal, a man who gives his name to the busy district in the centre of Birmingham near the International Convention Centre, National Indoor Arena and Broad Street.
Construction began in August 1790, when Thomas Dadford, a pupil of the canal engineer James Brindley, arrived on site, with Thomas Sheasby, his son Thomas Dadford, Jr., and a team of workmen.
The engineer James Brindley cut the first Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal near the town ; Thomas Telford cut the second.
* James Brindley, English engineer ( died 1772 )
It is often written erroneously as Brindley Place, the name of the street ( in turn named after the 18th century canal engineer James Brindley ) around which it is built.
The construction of Bridgewater's canal, with its famous aqueduct across the Irwell, was carried out by James Brindley, the celebrated engineer.
But the genius of Brindley, his engineer, proved superior to all obstacles, and though at one period of the undertaking the financial resources of the Duke were almost exhausted, the work was carried to a triumphant conclusion.
A statue of James Brindley, the engineer for the Trent & Mersey main line, stands near the junction.
With salt production increasing, Droitwich Council asked James Brindley the canal engineer responsible for the Bridgewater Canal to survey a route from the town to the River Severn.
Although Brindley was officially " Inspector of the Works ", he was busy building the Trent and Mersey Canal at the time, and so the contractor responsible for building the locks was sent by John Priddey, the resident engineer, to work with and be taught by Brindley.
From Hawkesbury Junction, the Oxford Canal twists and turns while generally heading south east, as its engineer James Brindley built a contour canal which closely followed the contours of the land.

Brindley and has
The School of Computing has now moved to a purpose-built building on the Beaconside campus and the newly refurbished Brindley Building in Stoke, and continues to offer one of the best respected computing degrees in the UK.
The Cathedral has a large 2 manual Brindley & Foster organ in the Chancel and a Viscount 3 manual " Physis " organ in the Nave.

Brindley and often
He is famous as the originator of British inland navigation, the commissioner of the Bridgewater Canal — often said to be the first true canal in Britain and the modern world ( see below for a qualification )— which was built for him by James Brindley to service his coal mines at Worsley, in Lancashire.

Brindley and been
The Oxford Canal had been built by James Brindley and carried coal to large parts of southern England.
The locks could have been avoided if a tunnel had been built, but the ground was too unstable for James Brindley to build a tunnel using the techniques available at the time.

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