biography
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Baker, Sir Benjamin
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–1907)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Keyford, Somerset, SW England, UK. In 1861 he entered into a long association with John Fowler as consulting engineer. They together designed the London Metropolitan Railway, Victoria Station, and many bridges, including the Forth Rail Bridge (1883–90) built on the cantilever principle, for which Baker was knighted. He was also consulting engineer for the Aswan Dam in Egypt (1902) and the Hudson River Tunnel in New York (1888–91). |
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