Civil engineer. Born Somerset. Worked on the early London underground lines and the Forth Bridge. Was an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster enquiry. Died at home in Pangbourne. Imperial College awards a "Sir Benjamin Baker Medal" each year, bestowed on the student with the longest, most luxuriant moustache (we wish).
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Benjamin Baker
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Benjamin Baker - W8
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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William Rankine
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
2 memorials
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
1 memorial
1 memorial
James Muil Smith
Junior 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Marconi - EC1
EC1, Newgate Street
2019: The FT reported that BT have announced their plan to sell this site. The building only dates from 1984 but BT (GPO) have been on th...
1 subject commemorated
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