A GREAT , ENGINEER.
On Saturday last Sir -Benjamin Baker, the famous engineer, died suddenly in his sixty-seventh year. Sir Benjamin Baker, name is inseparably associated with some of the greatest engineering feata of the age — the Forth Bridge, and the construction of "tube" railways — was in the best and most honourable senso of the word a selfmade man. As. Mr. Herbert Spencer noted in his autiobiography, ho rose to the highest rank of his profession without passing through a curriculum appropriate to hia calling or, receiving any regular engineering instruction. Perhaps tho greatest monument of hie skill is the great Assouan Dam, the construction of which has quadrupled the prosperity of tho dwellers on the Nile and earned for him an honoured place, after Lovd Cromer — whose last memorandum payo a signal tribute to his feniuv— among the makers of uwdern
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 13
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141A GREAT , ENGINEER. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 13
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