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| Name | William Cubitt |
| Nationality | English |
| Birth date | 1785 |
| Birth place | Norfolk |
| Date of death | 1861 |
| Work | |
| Engineering Discipline | civil engineer |
| Institution memberships | Institution of Civil Engineers (president} |
| Significant projects | The Crystal Palace Welwyn Viaduct |
Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright. Born in Norfolk, England, he was employed in many of the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as Chief engineer, at Ransomes of Ipswich, before moving to London. He worked on canals, docks, and railways, and the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851.
He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1850 and 1851.1
Structures that still exist include:
- Many windmills in East Anglia or Lincolnshire
- Iron bridges: Brent Eleigh and Clare, and the Stoke Bridge at Ipswich (Suffolk); Witham (Essex).
- Port Offices, Lowestoft
- Haddiscoe Cut
- Oxford Canal at Rugby and at Newbold Tunnel
- Shropshire Union Canal at Shelmore Embankment
- Diglis Lock on the River Severn at Worcester
- Folkestone Viaduct
- Folkestone Warren and Martello, Abbot's Cliff, Shakespeare and Martello Tunnels
- Welwyn Viaduct
- Nene Bridge, Peterborough
- Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
References
- ^ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 251, ISBN 0-727-70392-7
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
Cubitt also constructed Penton Lodge, which is located in Penton Mewsey,
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| Preceded by Joshua Field |
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers December 1849 – December 1851 |
Succeeded by James Meadows Rendel |
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| NAME | Cubitt, William |
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| DATE OF BIRTH | 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norfolk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1861 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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