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See also: English engineer, was See also: born in 1785 at Dilham in See also: Norfolk, where his See also: father was a See also: miller
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After serving an apprenticeship of four years (18o0-18o4) as a joiner and cabinetmaker at Statham, he became associated with an agricultural-machine maker, named See also: Cook, who resided at Swanton
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In 1807 he patented self-regulating sails for See also: wind-mills, and in 1812 he entered the See also: works of Messrs Ransome of See also: Ipswich, where he soon became chief engineer, and ultimately a partner
.
Meanwhile, the subject of the employment of criminals had been much in his thoughts; and the result was his introduction of the treadmill about 1818
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In 1826 he removed to See also: London, where he gained a very large practice as a See also: civil engineer
.
Among his works were the See also: Oxford canal, the, See also: Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal, the improvement of the See also: river See also: Severn, the Bute docks at See also: Cardiff, the Black Sluice drainage and its outfall sluice at See also: Boston harbour, the Middlesborough docks and See also: coal drops in the See also: Tees, and the See also: South-Eastern railway, of which he was chief engineer
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The Hanoverian See also: government consulted him about the harbour and docks at See also: Harburg; the See also: water-works of the city of Berlin were constructed under his immediate superintendence; he was asked to report on the construction of the See also: Paris & See also: Lyons railway; and he was consulting engineer for the See also: line from See also: Boulogne to See also: Amiens
.
Among his later works were two floating landing stages at Liverpool, and the See also: bridge for carrying the London See also: turnpike across the See also: Medway at Rochester
.
In 1851, when he was president of the Institution of Civil See also: Engineers, he was knighted for his services in connexion with the buildings erected in See also: Hyde See also: Park for the See also: exhibition of that See also: year
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He retired from active See also: work in 1858, and died on the 15th of See also: October 1861 at his See also: house on Clapham See also: Common, London
.
His son, See also: Joseph Cubitt (1811-1872), was trained under him, and was engineer of various See also: railways, including the See also: Great See also: Northern, London, See also: Chatham & See also: Dover, and See also: part of the London & South-Western
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