William Heerlein Lindley
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Hamburg
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- 30 December 1917 in London
London
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) was a British civil engineer.
One of three sons of the famous British engineer William Lindley
William Lindley
William Lindley , was a famous English engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe.-Life:...
, WH Lindley worked together with his father on a number of projects and was a respected engineer in his own right. Between 1881 and 1889 he oversaw the construction of Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
waterworks, designed by his father in 1876-8. He oversaw the construction of the sewage works in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, built between 1895 and 1906, which was in use until 1967. He also coordinated the project for Baku
Baku
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's water supply system, working from 1899 up until his death in 1917. In 1909 he also designed a water and sewerage system for Łódź, Poland, although the expense of the system meant the project was shelved until the 1920s.
Literature
- Jaroslav Jásek: William Heerlein Lindley a pražská kanalizace (William Heerlein Lindley and sewage works in Prague), Scriptorium, Prague, 2006, ISBN 80-86197-65-4. A Czech language monograph.
- Franz Lerner, William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1917). Umriss seines Lebens von Franz Lerner, in: Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Heft 49, Frankfurt am Main 1965, s. 123-133.
- The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, Vol. 33
- Ryszard Żelichowski, Lindleyowie. Dzieje inżynierskiego rodu (The Lindleys. Works of a family of engineers), Warszawa 2002, ISBN 83-88794-91-4