biography
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Bidder, George Parker
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nickname The Calculating Boy
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| male
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| lived:
| (1806–78)
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| biography:
| Engineer and precocious mathematician, born in Moretonhampstead, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied at Camberwell and Edinburgh, and became a civil engineer, inventing the railway swing bridge and designing the Royal Victoria Docks, which were opened in 1856. |
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