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| x Robert Oppenheimer |
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for...
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Manhattan Project | Director of Research | |
| x Leslie Groves |
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Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during...
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Manhattan Project | Administrator | |
| Design and Construction of the Pentagon | |||||
| x Hidalgo Moya |
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John Hidalgo Moya (May 5, 1920–1994), sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. Moya was a native of California where he was born to an English mother and Mexican father but lived in England...
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Design and Construction of Skylon | Architect | |
| x Felix Samuely |
Felix James Samuely (3 February 1902 – 22 January 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), the British Pavilion for the...
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Design and Construction of Skylon | Structural engineer | ||
| x Philip Powell |
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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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Design and Construction of Skylon | Architect | |
| x Abram Games |
Abram Games OBE, RDI (1914, Whitechapel, London — 1996, London) was a British graphic designer.
Born Abraham Games in Whitechapel, London on the day World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Games, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, a...
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Preparation for the Festival of Britain | Graphic Designer | ||
| x Hugh Casson |
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, CH, 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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Preparation for the Festival of Britain | Director of Architecture | ||
| Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Commisioning Architect | ||||
| x London County Council |
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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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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Real estate developer | |
| 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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Sir John Leslie Martin KBE (Manchester, 17 August 1908 – 28 July 2000) 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...
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Lead Architect | |
| x Robert Matthew |
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Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, OBE, FRIBA (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...
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Architect | |
| x Clement Attlee |
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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 the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935...
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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | Foundation Stone Dignitary | |
| x Holland, Hannen & Cubitts |
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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Initial Design and Construction of the Royal Festival Hall | General contractor | ||
| Design and Construction of County Hall, London | General contractor | 1911 | |||
| 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 | Structural engineer | ||||
| Construction of Vidyasagar Setu | Design engineer | ||||
| Initial design and construction of Wye Bridge | Structural engineer | ||||
| Construction of Medway Viaduct | Consultant Structural Engineers | ||||
| x Oleg Kerensky |
Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky CBE FRS (Russian: Оле́г Алекса́ндрович Кере́нский), (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...
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Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Structural engineer | ||
| x Gilbert Roberts |
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Sir Gilbert Roberts (18 Feb 1899 - 1 Jan 1978) was a British civil engineer.
He was born in Hampstead, London to Henry William Roberts, a pharmacist and educated at Bromley High School. He then went to Gresham College to study engineering but on the...
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Design and Construction of The Dome of Discovery | Structural engineer | |
| 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 | |||
| Initial design and construction of Consultant for Channel Bridge Project | Structural engineer | ||||
| x Frank Newby |
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 Skylon | Structural engineer | ||
| Design and Construction of the Aviary at Regents Park Zoo | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Boots Factory, Nottingham | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Embassy of the United States in London | Structural engineer | ||||
| Design and Construction of the Faculty of Engineering Building, University of Leicester | Structural engineer | ||||
| x Alexander Binnie |
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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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Design and Construction of Vauxhall Bridge | Structural engineer | |
| Construction of Greenwich Foot Tunnel | Structural engineer | ||||
| x Maurice Fitzmaurice |
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 Vauxhall Bridge | Structural engineer | ||
| 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 | Structural engineer | ||||
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| x Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (/ˈɪzəmbɑrd bruːˈnɛl/; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series...
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Design and Construction of the Thames Tunnel | Structural engineer | |
| 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 | Engineer | ||||
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| x Michael Faraday |
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Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was a British scientist, chemist, physicist and philosopher who greatly contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include that of the Magnetic...
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| x Louis Gustave Mouchel | |||||
| x Robert Stephenson |
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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 achievements popularly credited to his father were...
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Initial design and construction of Britannia Bridge | Structural engineer | |
| Stockton and Darlington Railway | |||||
| Contruction of Victoria Bridge | Structural engineer | ||||
| Construction Conwy Suspension Bridge | Engineer | ||||
| Construction of Canterbury and Whitstable Railway | Engineer | 1824 | |||
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| x Thomas Telford |
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Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
Telford was born on 9 August 1757 at Glendinning, a hill farm 3 miles west of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural...
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Design and Construction of the Slateford Aqueduct | Structural engineer | |
| 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 Evan Owen 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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Construction of M1 motorway | Architect | ||
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| x Henry J. Kaiser |
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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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Design and Construction of the Hoover Dam | ||
| x Frank Crowe |
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Francis Trenholm Crowe (October 12, 1882(1882-10-12) – February 26, 1946(1946-02-26)) 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...
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Design and Construction of the Hoover Dam | ||
| x George Leather | Design and Construction of the Stanley Ferry Aqueduct | ||||
| x Benjamin Outram |
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Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. He was a pioneer in the building of canals and tramways.
Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, he began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram,...
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Design and Construction of the Store Street Aqueduct | ||
| Design and Construction of the Marple Aqueduct | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Cromford Canal | |||||
| x William Jessop |
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William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon, the son of Josias...
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Design and Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | Canal engineer | |
| Design and Construction of the Cromford Canal | |||||
| Design and Construction of the Caledonian Canal | Structural engineer | ||||
| Contruction of Caledonian Canal | Consulting Engineer | 1803 | |||
| Design and Construction of the West India Docks | Engineer | 1799 | |||
| x Edmund Cooper | Design and Construction of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station | ||||
| x Joseph Bazalgette |
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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"...
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Design and Construction of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station | ||
| Metropolitan Mid Level Sewer | Chief Engineer | ||||
| x Frederick Palmer |
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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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Construction of sheds at the West India Docks | 1912 | |
| 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, FRSE (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 his native 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-born Scot inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment 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, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". (The hyphenated name is used herein for consistency, although this was not adopted until he was knighted in 1942...
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| x John Logie Baird |
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John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's...
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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 long-term inventor.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten...
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| x James Nasmyth |
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James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 –7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company...
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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 wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in...
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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.
James Harrison was born at St Johns (near Renton), Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the son of...
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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, the Charlotte Dundas.
Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being "respectable...
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| x James Alfred Ewing |
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Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE (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,...
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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 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Bain installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Bain was born in Watten, Caithness,...
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| x Robert Stirling Newall |
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Robert Stirling Newall FRS (27 May 1812 – 21 April 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.
Born in Dundee, he was befriended by civil engineer L.D.B. Gordon. In 1838, whilst studying at the Freiburg School of Mines, Germany, Gordon visited the...
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| x Henry Bell |
Henry Bell (7 April, 1767 – 14 March, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe.
Bell was born at Torphichen, near Bathgate, West Lothian in 1767 and pioneered 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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