Encyclopedia > James Brindley

Article Content

James Brindley

James Brindley (1716-1772) was an engineer in England. He was born in Thornsett[?], Derbyshire, and lived in Leek, Staffordshire. He built 365 miles of canals and many watermills, including the Bridgewater Canal[?] and the watermill at Leek, now the Brindley Water Museum[?].

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Flapper

... the term was already doccumented as in use in the United Kingdom as early as 1912. Writers and artists in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Held, ...