biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1761–1821)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Phantassie, East Lothian, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, entered the employment of Boulton & Watt (1784), set up in London as an engineer (1791), and soon became famous as a bridge-builder - building Kelso, Leeds, Musselburgh, Newton Stewart, Boston, New Galloway, and the old Southwark and Waterloo Bridges, and designing London Bridge. He made many important canals, drained fens, designed the docks in London and several other ports, and improved others. He also constructed the celebrated breakwater at Plymouth (1811–41). |
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