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James Price (6 February 1917 – 22 September 2005) was a Welsh civil engineer, mathematician, author, and poet. Price was the chief resident engineer on several large-scale engineering projects, including the M1 and M3 motorways, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and an internationally acclaimed poet.
Sir William Gordon Harris KBE CB FREng (10 June 1912 – 20 February 2005) was a British civil engineer. His early career was with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and in the Sudanese Irrigation Department before he began a 26-year spell with the Admiralty Civil Engineers Department.
Mini Motorways is a puzzle strategy game released by New Zealand studio Dinosaur Polo Club. [1] It is a follow-up to their 2015 video game Mini Metro . The game tasks the player with creating roads to connect coloured houses to buildings.
Highway engineering (also known as roadway engineering and street engineering) is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.
Apple gave the studio monetary support in exchange for Mini Motorways to launch on Apple Arcade. [5] Once the game saw success and eventually became available on Steam, Dinosaur Polo Club expanded from around eight employees to its current 26. In 2022, they also expanded their office size from 130 square meters to 550 square meters.
1969 – 'Motorways' published, Drake wrote this along with Harry Yeadon and Di Evans. 1972 – Drake is awarded Honorary Fellowship of Manchester Polytechnic. 1972 to 1975 – Drake is a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Council. 1973 – Drake is awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Salford.
Reginald Heber Thomson (usually R.H. Thomson; 1856 – January 7, 1949) was a self-taught American civil engineer. He worked in Washington state, mainly in Seattle, where he became city engineer in 1892 [1] and held the position for two decades. Alan J. Stein wrote that Thomson "probably did more than any other individual to change the face of ...
Marples Ridgway was a British civil engineering company founded in 1948 by engineer Reginald Ridgway and accountant Ernest Marples. [1] Marples served as the British Minister of Transport between 1959 and 1964. [2] In 1964, the company was taken over by the Bath and Portland Group.