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Great Stink of London : Sir Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metro
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
ISBN-10
0750925809
ISBN-13
9780750925808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1904654
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great Stink of London : Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
942.1081092
Synopsis
A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that cleaned up Victorian London., In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis "The Great Stink". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette. This book is an account of his life and work., In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis "The Great Stink". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and this book is a fascinating account of his life and work. Bazalgette's response to the challenge was to conceive and build the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process he cleansed the River Thames of the capital's sewage and helped to banish cholera, which in the mid-nineteenth century carried off over 40,000 Londoners. But this successful scheme was only one element in Bazalgette's wider contribution to the development of the Victorian capital. He also reclaimed land from the Thames to construct the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea Embankments, built bridges across the Thames at Putney, Battersea and Hammersmith, and created many notable new thoroughfares including Charing Cross Road, Northumberland Avenue and Shaftesbury Avenue. Stephen Halliday's enthralling social and personal history gives a vivid insight into Bazalgette's achievements and the era in which he worked and lived. The author traces the origins of Bazalgette's family in revolutionary France, the confusing sanitation system that he inherited from medieval and Tudor times and his heroic battle with politicians, bureaucrats and huge engineering problems to transform the face and health of the world's largest city.
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