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BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 227 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907) , English engineer, was born near Bath in 184o, and, after receiving his early training in a
South
  Wales ironworks, became associated with Sir John Fowler in London. He took
part
  in the construction of the
Metropolitan
  railway (London), and in designing the cylindrical vessel in which Cleopatra's Needle, now
standing
  on the Thames Embankment, London, was brought over from
Egypt
  to England in 1877-1878. By this time he had already made himself an authority on
bridge
 -construction, and shortly afterwards he was engaged on the
work
  which made his reputation with the general publicthe
design
  and erection of the Forth
Bridge
 . On the completion of this undertaking in 1890 he was made K.C.M.G., and in the same year the Royal Society recognized his scientific attainments by electing him one of its fellows. Twelve years later at the formal opening of the Assuan dam, for which he was consulting-engineer, he was created K.C.B. Sir Benjamin Baker, who also had a large share in the introduction of the
system
  widely adopted in London of constructing intra-urban railways in deep tubular tunnels built up of cast iron segments, obtained an extremely large professional practice, ranging over almost every branch of civil engineering, and was more or less directly concerned with most of the
great
  engineering achievements of his day. He was also the author of many papers on engineering subjects. He died at Pangbourne, Berks, on the 19th of May 1907.


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