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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (died 1898)
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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet
English civil engineer (1817–1898)
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Forth Bridge
Railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by English engineers Sir John…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)