Civil engineer. Born Somerset. Worked on the early London underground lines and the Forth Bridge. Was an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster enquiry. Died at home in Pangbourne. Imperial College awards a "Sir Benjamin Baker Medal" each year, bestowed on the student with the longest, most luxuriant moustache (we wish).
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Benjamin Baker
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Benjamin Baker - W8
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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William Henry Barlow
Engineer. Born Charlton. Best known for the St Pancras railway shed. Died at home, High Combe, 145 Charlton Road, SE7, not far from his place of birth.
2 memorials
first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world
See Brunel's Thames Tunnel.
2 memorials
William Charles Copperthwaite
Engineer. 1906 Copperthwaite published "Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air in subaqueous works". 2021: We were kindly contacted by Christopher Nobbs (great-nephew of Copperthwaite) who w...
2 memorials
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Established as the Thames Bank Ironworks by Thomas Joseph Ditchburn and Charles John Mare. Renamed in 1860, it had by 1863 the capacity to build 25,000 tons of warships and 10,000 tons of mail stea...
2 memorials
John Rennie, the elder
Engineer. Born Scotland. In 1791 he moved to London and set up his own business mainly building canals, bridges, docks and harbours. In London his works included: Albion Mills, Waterloo Bridge, Sou...
6 memorials
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