biography
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Garstin, Sir William Edmund
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| lived:
| (1849–1925)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in India. He studied at King's College, London, and became an official in the Indian Public Works Department (1872). Transferred to Egypt in 1885, he was responsible for the plans and building of the Aswan Dam and the barrages of Asyut and Esna. He compiled two valuable reports on the hydrography of the Upper Nile, initiated the geological survey of Egypt (1896), and erected the new buildings of the National Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (1902). |
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