Civil engineers who built waterworks, sewers, aqueducts, canals, dams, dikes and harbours, bringing water to cities, carrying waste away and linking waterways. A person belongs here when the cited article credits the person with such works. It excludes engineers known mainly for bridges and other structures, who sit in the bridge and structural group. The group is one of the groupings of engineers under this engineering field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field.
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Sextus Julius Frontinus (Wikipedia)
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However, he is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially De aquaeductu, dealing with the aqueducts of Rome.
Sunshu Ao (Wikipedia)
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Sunshu Ao was entrusted with many endeavors of the state, and because of a large dam, reservoir, and irrigation project he had established, he is also credited as the first known hydraulic engineer of China.
John Smeaton (Wikipedia)
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John Smeaton (8 June 1724-28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.
Thomas Telford (Wikipedia)
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After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels.
William Heerlein Lindley (Wikipedia)
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Between 1881 and 1889 he oversaw the construction of Warsaw waterworks, designed by his father in 1876-1878.
George Washington Goethals (Wikipedia)
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George Washington Goethals ( GOH-thəlz June 29, 1858, January 21, 1928) was an American military officer and civil engineer, best known for his administration and supervision of the construction and the opening of the Panama Canal.
William Jessop (Wikipedia)
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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.
Cornelis Lely (Wikipedia)
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The designer of Afsluitdijk, the largest dam and causeway at its time of construction, in 1932, he oversaw the Zuiderzee Works as Minister, turning the Zuiderzee into a lake and making possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.
Joseph Bazalgette (Wikipedia)
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As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames.
Benjamin Baker (Wikipedia)
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Later, he helped design and build the first Aswan Dam.
Karikala Chola (Wikipedia)
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credited with the construction of the flood banks of the river Kaveri
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History: James Brindley
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In 1759 The Duke commissioned Brindley to construct a canal to do just that.
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