Celebrating Benjamin Baker

摘要

In the mid-19th Century the small country town of Frame in Somerset was full of the noise, bustle and fumes of Victorian metal works. Into these surroundings was born the visionary, global engineer Benjamin Baker. He was responsible for some of the most audacious structures of the time. He designed the Forth Rail Bridge (for which he was knighted by Queen Victoria) and the Aswan Dam. He also designed the metal cylinder that brought Cleopatra's Needle back from Alexandria to London and tunneling systems for the London Underground and the Hudson River Tunnel into New York.