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| x Robert Oppenheimer |
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Manhattan Project |
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project,...
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| x Leslie Groves |
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Manhattan Project |
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves (August 17, 1896 – July 13, 1970) was a United States Army Engineer officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and was the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the...
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| x Hidalgo Moya |
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Design and Construction of Skylon | Architect |
John Hidalgo Moya (May 5, 1920 – 1994), sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. He formed the architectural practice Powell & Moya Architect Practice with Philip Powell. Among other projects...
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| x Felix Samuely | Design and Construction of Skylon | Structural engineer |
Felix James Samuely (February 3, 1902 – January 22, 1959) was a Structural engineer.
Born in Vienna, he immigrated to Britain in 1933. Worked with Erich Mendelsohn on the De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (1936) and on various parts of the...
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| x Philip Powell |
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Design and Construction of Skylon | Architect |
Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (15 March 1921 – 5 May 2003 in London), usually known as Philip Powell, was a ground-breaking English post-war architect.
He was educated at Epsom College and then the Architectural Association.
He was the father of ...
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| x Abram Games |
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Preparation for the Festival of Britain | Graphic Designer |
Abram Games (1914, Whitechapel, London — 1996, London), British graphic designer.
Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London on the day World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, a seamstress born on...
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| x Hugh Casson | Preparation for the Festival of Britain | Director of Architecture |
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of...
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| Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Commisioning Architect | ||||
| x London County Council |
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Real estate developer |
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889-1965 existence, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today known as Inner...
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| Design of the Lansbury Estate | Real estate developer | ||||
| x Peter Moro | Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Architect | |||
| Design of the Nottingham Playhouse | |||||
| x Leslie Martin |
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Lead Architect |
Sir John Leslie Martin KBE (Manchester, 17 August 1908 – 28 July 1999) was an English Architect. A leading advocate of the International Style Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. Martin's work was especially influenced by Alvar...
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| x Robert Matthew |
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Architect |
Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906 – 1975) was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism.
Robert Matthew was the son of John Matthew (also an architect, and the partner of Sir Robert Lorimer). He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and...
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| x Clement Attlee |
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Foundation Stone Dignitary |
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
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| x Holland, Hannen & Cubitts |
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | General contractor |
Holland, Hannen & Cubitts was a major building firm responsible for many of the great buildings of London.
It was formed from the fusion of two well-established building houses that had competed throughout the later decades of the nineteenth century...
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| x Ralph Tubbs | Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Architect | |||
| x Freeman, Fox and Partners | Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Consultant Structural Engineers | |||
| Design and Construction of the Humber Bridge | |||||
| x Oleg Kerensky | Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Structural engineer |
Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky (16 April 1905 - 25 June 1984) was a Russian civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time.
Kerensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky, who...
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| x Gilbert Roberts | Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Structural engineer |
Gilbert Roberts was a British engineer who won the Royal Medal in 1968.
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| x Ian Blackburn | Renovation of the Royal Festival Hall, 2005 to 2007 | Project Director | |||
| x Rick Mather Architects | The Redevelopment of Southbank Centre site 1999 - 2007 | Masterplanner | |||
| x Schneider/Hersent | Channel Bridge Project | Consultant | |||
| x Frank Newby | Design and Construction of Skylon | Structural engineer |
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
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| Design and Construction of the Aviary at Regents Park Zoo | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Boots Factory, Nottingham | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Embassy of the United States in London | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Faculty of Engineering Building, University of Leicester | |||||
| x Alexander Binnie |
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Design and Construction of Vauxhall Bridge | Structural engineer |
Sir Alexander Richardson Binnie (1839 – 1917) was a civil engineer responsible for several major engineering projects, including several associated with crossings of the River Thames in London.
As chief engineer for the London County Council, his...
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| x Maurice Fitzmaurice |
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Design and Construction of Vauxhall Bridge | Structural engineer |
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both...
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| Design and Construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Aswan Dam | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Forth Bridge | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Woolwich foot tunnel | |||||
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| x Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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Design and Construction of the Thames Tunnel |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and...
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| Design and Construction of the Avon Bridge | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Bath Spa railway station | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Paddington Bridge | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Box Tunnel | |||||
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| x Michael Faraday |
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Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday studied the...
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| x Louis Gustave Mouchel | |||||
| x Robert Stephenson |
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Britannia Bridge | Civil engineer |
For the light house engineer see Robert Stevenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the...
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| x Thomas Telford |
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Design and Construction of the Slateford Aqueduct | Structural engineer |
Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 - 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
Telford was born in Glendinning, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His father,...
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| Design and Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Avon Aqueduct | Civil engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Ellesmere Canal | Civil engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Crinan Canal | Canal engineer | ||||
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| x Owen Williams |
Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was born in Tottenham, London, England, son of Owen Tudor Williams and Mary Roberts, and died in hospital in Hemel Hempstead. He studied engineering at the University of London, after which he was...
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| x Henry J. Kaiser |
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Design and Construction of the Hoover Dam |
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed...
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| x Frank Crowe |
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Design and Construction of the Hoover Dam |
Francis Trenholm Crowe (1882–1946) was the chief engineer of the Hoover Dam. During that time, he was the superintendent of Six Companies, the construction company that oversaw the construction project.
Born in Trenholmville, Quebec, Crowe attended...
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| x George Leather | Design and Construction of the Stanley Ferry Aqueduct | ||||
| x Benjamin Outram |
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Design and Construction of the Store Street Aqueduct |
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.
Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, he began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram, who described himself as an "agriculturalist", but was...
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| Design and Construction of the Marple Aqueduct | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Cromford Canal | |||||
| x William Jessop |
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Design and Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | Canal engineer |
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon in 1745,...
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| Design and Construction of the Cromford Canal | |||||
| x Edmund Cooper | Design and Construction of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station | ||||
| x Joseph Bazalgette |
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Design and Construction of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station |
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation in response to "The Great Stink" of...
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| x Frederick Palmer |
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Design and Construction of the West India Docks |
Frederick Palmer (1860–19??) was a British civil engineer.
Palmer was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1860. Palmer undertook several projects at the West India Docks. The first was the construction of several sheds at the Import Dock between 1912...
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| x David Atholl Hislop | |||||
| x Robert Alfred Carr | |||||
| x Robert Carr | |||||
| x Harry Oswald Carr | |||||
| x Francis Webb |
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Francis William Webb (21 May 1836–4 June 1906) was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
Webb was born in Tixall Rectory, near Stafford, Staffordshire, the...
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| x James Watt |
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James Watt FRS (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of Great...
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| x William Dickson |
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Dickson was born on 3...
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| x Robert Watson-Watt |
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, LLD, DSc, Order of the Bath, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but, on 1...
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| x John Logie Baird |
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John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system, also the world's first fully electronic colour television broadcast. Although Baird's electromechanical system was...
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| x William Murdoch |
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William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed he Anglicised his name to Murdock when he moved to England.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and...
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| x James Nasmyth |
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James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (August 19, 1808 – May 7, 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer.
His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait...
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| x John Reith, 1st Baron Reith |
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John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922 he was...
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| x John Muir |
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John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada...
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| x James Harrison |
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James Harrison (April 1816 - 3 September 1893) was an Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician, and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.
Daniel Harrison was born at St Johns (near Renton), Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the son...
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| x William Symington |
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William Symington (1764–1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat.
Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being "respectable but not wealthy." His...
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| x James Alfred Ewing |
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Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.
(Note:...
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| x Colin Mackenzie |
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Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754 – 1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.
Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research and...
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| x Alexander Bain |
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Alexander Bain (October 1811 – January 2, 1877) was a Scottish instrument inventor, technician, and clockmaker. He invented the electric clock. Bain installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Bain was born in Watten,...
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| x Robert Stirling Newall |
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Robert Stirling Newall (1812 – 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.
Born in Dundee, he patented a new type of wire rope in 1840 and established a factory in Gateshead, England for its manufacture in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and...
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| x Henry Bell |
Henry Bell (April 7, 1767 – March 14, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe.
Bell was born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire in 1767 and pioneered the development of the...
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| x William Arrol |
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Sir William Arrol (1839–1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician.
The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a...
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