William Henry Barlow
| William Henry Barlow | |
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| Born |
10 May 1812 Woolwich, Kent |
| Died | 12 November 1902 (aged 90) Charlton, London |
| Parent(s) | Peter Barlow |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Civil |
| Institutions |
Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| Projects |
St Pancras railway station, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Tay Rail Bridge |
| Significant design | Barlow rail |
William Henry Barlow FRS FRSE FICE MIMechE (10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects. Barlow was involved in many engineering enterprises. He was engineer for the Midland Railway on its London extension and designed the company's London terminus at St Pancras.
With John Hawkshaw, he completed Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge. Following the Tay Bridge disaster he sat on the commission which investigated the causes and designed the replacement Tay Bridge. Barlow was also an inventor and experimenter, patenting a design for a rail and carrying out investigations on the use and design of steel structures.
Barlow was born on 10 May 1812 in Woolwich, Kent (now in south-east London), the son of mathematician and physicist Professor Peter Barlow, who taught at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. William Barlow was the younger brother of Peter William Barlow. After a private education, Barlow began to study civil engineering with his father at the age of sixteen. After a year he, went on to a pupillage at the machinery department of the Royal Navy's Woolwich Dockyard close to his family home. He then worked at the London Docks for Henry Robinson Palmer.
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