Thomas Telford
Then he designed lots of projects in his native Scotland, including the building of the Caledonian Canal,  as well as harbours and tunnels and some 920 miles (1,480 km) of new roads and over a thousand new bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.  He built the Menai Suspension Bridge,  the longest suspension bridge at the time.    He was called the Colossus of Roads (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and he was elected as the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, which he held for 14 years until his death.