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English engineer. In the course of a short, incessantly energetic career, he achieved a reputation as one of the leading engineers of his time. The number and variety of projects for which he took responsibility was astonishing, and the fact that some were failures seemed only to confirm the fertile originality of his overall output. Since his death, particularly in the later 20th century, he has been classed as one of the heroes of England’s industrial past.
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