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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB ( / ˈbæzəldʒɛt /; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city of ...
Joseph Bazalgette was born in London on 28 March 1819. His father was a captain in the Royal Navy. Bazalgette began his career as a railway engineer, gaining considerable experience in land ...
Mar 26, 2019 · Joseph William Bazalgette was the Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and had been hired specifically to take charge of the new sewers. The cost would be enormous. Parliament initially offered £2.5 million, somewhere between £240 million and over a billion pounds in today's values.
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Jun 28, 2021 · Born in Enfield in 1819, Joseph William Bazalgette was – like another acclaimed Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel – of French descent, his grandfather having arrived in England in the 1770s. By 1846, when he became a full member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Bazalgette had considerable experience of land reclamation and ...
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Mar 24, 2024 · Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (born March 28, 1819, Enfield, Middlesex [now in Enfield, London], Eng.—died March 15, 1891, Wimbledon, Surrey [now in Merton, London]) was a British civil engineer who designed the main drainage system for London. After working on projects in Northern Ireland, Bazalgette in 1842 became a consulting engineer at ...
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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a civil engineer in the 19 th century who built London’s first sewer system (still in use today), which helped to wipe out cholera in the capital. Bazalgette's sewage system was developed in response to the Great Stink of 1858, when, spurred on by hot weather, the waste polluting the Thames (human and ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Sir Joseph Bazalgette, born in Enfield to a retired Navy captain, was the grandson of Louis Bazalgette, a wealthy Huguenot tailor and financier with close ties to the future George IV. Image: A memorial to Bazalgette, located on the Victoria Embankment in London.
