Joseph Bazalgette
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19th-century English civil engineer, 1819-1891
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.