The Great Stink of London
Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
Engineers, biography
Sanitary engineering
Sewage disposal
Sewerage
Engineers
London (england), history
Sanitation
Great britain, history
Railroads
Engineering
Social conditions
Biography
History
It is a trait of human memory to forget, to take things for granted: especially those things pertaining to the "truth of the pipes", the infrastructure of reality, of the comforts of day-to-day existence. Joseph Bazalgette turned this melancholy aspect of human nature into a virtue of engineering: f…
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