See also:SIR See also:BENJAMIN See also:BAKER (1840-1907)
, See also:English engineer, was See also:born near See also:Bath in 184o, and, after receiving his See also:early training in a See also:South See also:Wales ironworks, became associated with See also:Sir See also:John See also:Fowler in See also:London
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He took See also:part in the construction of the See also:Metropolitan railway (London), and in designing the cylindrical See also:vessel in which See also:Cleopatra's See also:Needle, now See also:standing on the See also:Thames See also:Embankment, London, was brought over from See also:Egypt to See also:England in 1877-1878
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By this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he had already made himself an authority on See also:bridge-construction, and shortly afterwards he was engaged on the See also:work which made his reputation with the See also:general public—the See also:design and erection of the Forth Bridge
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On the completion of this undertaking in 1890 he was made K.C.M.G., and in the same See also:year the Royal Society recognized his scientific attainments by electing him one of its See also:fellows
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Twelve years later at the formal opening of the See also:Assuan See also:dam, for which he was consulting-engineer, he was created K.C.B
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Sir See also:Benjamin See also:Baker, who also had a large See also:share in the introduction of the See also:system widely adopted in London of constructing See also:intra-See also:urban See also:railways in deep tubular tunnels built up of See also:cast See also:iron segments, obtained an extremely large professional practice, ranging over almost every See also:branch of See also:civil See also:engineering, and was more or less directly concerned with most of the See also:great engineering achievements of his See also:day
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He was also the author of many papers on engineering subjects
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He died at Pangbourne, Berks, on the 19th of May 1907
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