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Joseph Bazalgette


 

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 181915 March 1891) was one of the great Victorian civil engineers. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London that helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames that had reached a nadir with "The Great Stink" of 1858.

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28 March - 1819 - 15 March - 1891 - Victorian - Civil engineers - Engineer - London - Metropolitan Board of Works - Sewer network for central London - Cholera - Thames - The Great Stink - 1858

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Introduction
Beginnings
Sewer works
Awards
Memorials
Other works
Descendants

 

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