Engineer known for inventing the Bessemer process for producing steel. Born Charlton, Hertfordshire. Moved to London aged 17. From 1833 he lived at 15 Northampton Square, the EC1 site now occupied by the entrance to City of London University. Died at home at 165 Denmark Hill.
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers
Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London. 1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...
Major-General William Roy
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John Murdoch Harbert III
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Colonel George Thomas Landmann
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Major Allan Beckett
Civil engineer. Born Allan Harry Beckett in East Ham. He designed the 'whale' floating roadways which were a crucial part of the Mulberry harbours that were used in the Normandy Landings in June 19...
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