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About Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a British civil engineer. 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.
Everything about Joseph Bazalgette →- Occupation
- architect, civil engineer, engineer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 28, 1819
- Died
- March 15, 1891