Edwin Clark (1814–1894) was an English civil engineer, specialising in hydraulics. He is chiefly remembered as the designer of the Anderton Boat Lift (1875) near Northwich in Cheshire, which links the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal .
Clark was at one time a mathematical master at Brook Green, then became a surveyor in the west of England. In 1846 Clark went to London where he met Robert Stephenson, who appoi...
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Edwin Clark (1814–1894) was an English civil engineer, specialising in hydraulics. He is chiefly remembered as the designer of the Anderton Boat Lift (1875) near Northwich in Cheshire, which links the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal .
Clark was at one time a mathematical master at Brook Green, then became a surveyor in the west of England. In 1846 Clark went to London where he met Robert Stephenson, who appointed him superintending engineer of the Menai Bridge. When this opened on 5 March 1850 Clark published a book The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges (3 vols), and by August of that year he had moved on to become an engineer with the Electric and International Telegraph Company, where he took out the first of several patents for telegraph apparatus; the London and North Western Railway used Clark's telegraph between London and Rugby from 1855.
Clark was an experienced hydraulic engineer with the firm of Clark, Stansfield & Clark, consulting...
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