Rennie
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English civil engineer, eldest son of John Rennie; born in Surrey, England, Jan. 3, 1791; Renierinæ, with 12 species. of educated at St. Paul's School, London, and at Edinburgh University. In 1811 he became associated with his father in business, and on his father's death with his brother John. He constructed great naval works at Sebastopol, Nicolaiev, Odessa, Cronstadt, and in the principal ports of England and, built several English and continental railways and was the author of important works on engineering. He died March 30, 1866. gineer; born in Phantassie, Scotland, June 7, 1761; educated at Dunbar and Edinburgh. He labored for some time as a workman in the employment of a millwright. He was afterward employed in London in the construction of machinery. Here his reputation rapidly increased, till he was regarded as standing at the head of the civil engineers of Great Britain. He built or designed numerous bridges, canals, docks, and harbors; among others, London Bridge across the Thames, the Crinan Canal, the Lancaster Canal, and the Avon and Kennet Canal; the London Docks, the East and West India Docks, and docks at Hull, Greenock, Dublin; the harbors Berwick, Howth, and Newhaven; dockyards at London, Oct. 16, 1821. Virginia and Tr Truckee, and the Nevada, California, and Oregon railroads. It is Pop. (1910) 10,867; (1920) 12,016. French figure and landscape painter; upon china and porcelain. After studydame Charpentier and Her Children" (1878, Metropolitan Museum, New York); and the portraits of his contemporaries Monet and Sisley.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled this in 1921 it credited John Rennie (1761-1821) with London Bridge, the London and East and West India Docks, and a string of canals and harbours, and his son George with naval works at Sevastopol and Kronstadt. The most famous of those has since moved continents: Rennie's London Bridge, opened in 1831 and found to be sinking under motor traffic, was dismantled in 1968, sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch and re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was dedicated in 1971. His Waterloo Bridge of 1817 was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by Giles Gilbert Scott's concrete span, while the enclosed London and West India docks closed to shipping in the 1960s and 1980s and became Docklands housing and offices. The Plymouth Breakwater and the Crinan and Kennet and Avon canals survive, the last restored and reopened for leisure boating in 1990. Note that the text above is garbled by scanning, with stray lines about Reno, Nevada and the painter Renoir running into the Rennie articles.
Written for this edition, 2026.