Civil engineer. Born at 50 Ferdinand Strasse, Hamburg. Worked with his father William Lindley on a number of engineering projects, including the Warsaw waterworks and the sewerage system in Prague, which is still in use today. Knighted in 1911, he died at his home, 74 Hazlewell Road, Putney.
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Sir William Heerlein Lindley
William Lindley 1808 - 1900, Sir William Heerlein Lindley 1853 - 1917, civil ...
Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...
A wealthy construction industry leader in Birmingham, Alabama. Married Marguerite. In 2006 two of his children were entangled in a family feud, with Marguerite suing Raymond for profits from the fa...
Person, Armed Forces, Benefactor, Engineering, Philanthropy, USA
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