William Henry Barlow (1812–1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
Born in Charlton in south-east London, the son of an engineer and mathematician (Professor Peter Barlow, who taught at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich), William Barlow grew up close to Woolwich Dockyard and his formative years as an engineer were spent studying with his father and working in the Doc...
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William Henry Barlow (1812–1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
Born in Charlton in south-east London, the son of an engineer and mathematician (Professor Peter Barlow, who taught at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich), William Barlow grew up close to Woolwich Dockyard and his formative years as an engineer were spent studying with his father and working in the Dockyard’s machinery department.
He then spent six years working as an engineer in Constantinople, Turkey, helping build an ordnance factory on behalf of Henry Maudslay’s machine tool company (and working on some lighthouses in the Bosphorus), before returning to take up a post as assistant engineer on the Manchester and Birmingham (London and North-Western) Railway (1838), after which he joined the Midland Railway (1842). He formed his own consulting practice in 1857, but remained a consultant for the Midland Railway.
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