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Joseph Bazalgette

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19th-century English civil engineer, 1819-1891

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB was an English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He was also the designer of Hammersmith Bridge.

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