Christopher Colles
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title:
Christopher Colles
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Christopher Colles (1739–1816) was an Irish and American engineer and inventor, known for his work on numerous inland improvement projects, among them a water distribution system in New York City, canals to link the Atlantic seaboard to the American interior, and a road atlas of the northeastern United States. Described by his contemporaries and by historians as "ingenious" and "restless," many of his projects proved too ambitious to be realised and few attained real success. In certain quarters
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Irish engineer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Colles
date created:
2012-05-30T00:06:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T00:37:17Z
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