biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1811–91)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He was a mining engineer in Venezuela (1831–4), chief engineer of the Manchester and Leeds Railway (1845–50), and consulting engineer (1850) in the construction of Charing Cross and Cannon Street stations and bridges, and of the Inner Circle underground railway in London. He designed the Narmada bridge in India, was engineer for the Amsterdam ship canal (1862), wrote a decisive report in favour of the chosen route of the Suez Canal (1863), and was one of the engineers of the original Channel Tunnel project (1872–86). |
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