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SIR BENJAMIN BAKER (1840-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR BENJAMIN BAKER (1840-1907)  ,
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English engineer, was born near Bath in 184o, and, after receiving his early training in a South Wales ironworks, became associated with
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Sir John Fowler in
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London . He took
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part in the construction of the Metropolitan railway (London), and in designing the cylindrical vessel in which
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Cleopatra's Needle, now
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standing on the
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Thames
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Embankment, London, was brought over from
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Egypt to England in 1877-1878 . By this time he had already made himself an authority on
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bridge-construction, and shortly afterwards he was engaged on the
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work which made his reputation with the general public—the 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
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year the Royal Society recognized his scientific attainments by electing him one of its fellows . Twelve years later at the formal opening of the
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Assuan
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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
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system widely adopted in London of constructing
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intra-urban
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railways in deep tubular tunnels built up of cast iron segments, obtained an extremely large professional practice, ranging over almost every branch of
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civil
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engineering, and was more or less directly concerned with most of the
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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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