Sir John Fowler 1st Baronet KCMG LLD (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s he was engineer for the world’s first underground railway London’s Metropolitan Railway built by the cut-and-cover method under city streets. In the 1880s he was chief engineer for the Forth Railway Bridge which opened in 1890.
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birth date
1817-07-15
birth place
England, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Wadsley
death date
1898-11-20
death place
England, Dorset, Bournemouth
depiction description (caption)
Sir John Fowler by Sir John Everett Millais
discipline
Civil engineer
institution
Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
significant project
Metropolitan Railway, Torksey, Forth Bridge, Manchester Central Convention Complex, Wicker Arches, Millwall Dock
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