Christopher Colles

Christopher Colles, portrait by [[James Frothingham 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 he was described contemptuously as a "visionary projector," yet he was also credited with being the first to conceive a waterway to the West that would ultimately be achieved by the Erie Canal. Provided by Wikipedia
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    A survey of the roads of the United States of America, 1789 /
    by Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816
    Published 1961
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    Proposals for the speedy settlement of the waste and unappropriated lands of the western frontiers of the state of New York : and for the improvement of the inland navigation between Albany and Oswego.
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    Proposals for the speedy settlement of the waste and unappropriated lands on the western frontiers of the state of New-York, and for the improvement of the inland navigation between Albany and Oswego.
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    The geographical ledger and systemized atlas : being an united collection of topographical maps, projected by one universal principle, and laid down by one scale, proposed to be extended to different countries as materials can be procurred. /
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    Proposals for publishing a Survey of the roads of the United States of America /
    by Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816
    Published 1789
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    Proposals for the speedy settlement of the waste and unappropriated lands on the western frontiers of the state of New-York, and for the improvement of the inland navigation between Albany and Oswego.
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    A survey of the roads of the United States of America /
    by Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816
    Published 1789
    Other Authors: “...Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816...”
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    Your company is requested at the Coffee-House, on Monday the 19th inst. at six o'clock in the evening, in order to ... determine what will be the most eligible mode of laying the design of the Mohawk navigation before the legislature ...
    by Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816
    Published 1785
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    As the several inhabitants of this city are particularly interested in the following affair, it is therefore judged proper to lay the same before them : Copy of a proposal of Christopher Colles, for furnishing the city of New-York with a constant supply of fresh water. ...
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    Syllabus of a course of lectures in natural experimental philosophy /
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