William Lindley (September 7, 1808 - May 22, 1900), was a famous British engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... An engineer is someone who practices the engineering profession; a professional practitioner of engineering; someone who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems and produce goods for society. ... A water supply system provides water to the locations that need it. ... The word sewerage means the provision of pipes etc to collect and dispose of sewage. ...

As a young engineer he worked together with Marc Isambard Brunel and Francis Giles. In 1833 he went to Germany as Giles' assistant to design and build a railway line for Hamburg. The official opening had to be cancelled as a catastrophic fire in May 1842 left a third of the town in ruins. Lindley had already been commissioned to design a new sewer system for Hamburg, and the destruction was an opportunity to modernise the city. His designs, influenced by English social reformer and public health inspector Edwin Chadwick, included the first underground sewers in continental Europe. Within three years 11km of sewers had been built in Hamburg, and Lindley began work on a waterworks to supply the city with drinking water. In the following years he helped design and build water systems in a number of other German towns such as Altona, Stralsund and Leipzig. Marc Isambard Brunel, engraving by G. Metzeroth, circa 1880 Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (April 25, 1769 – December 12, 1849) was a French-born engineer who eventually settled in the United Kingdom. ... Francis Giles 1787 - 1847 Bibliography Engineer and surveyor who worked under John Rennie Surveyed the Bull Wall, RIVER IVEL NAVIGATION Reference: Engineers on Easynet Bull Wall RIVER IVEL NAVIGATION Categories: Engineer stubs ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Sewers transport wastewater from buildings to treatment facilities. ... Sir Edwin Chadwick (January 24, 1800–July 6, 1890) was an English social reformer. ... Altona may refer to various places: Altona, Victoria, a seaside suburb in Melbourne, Australia Altona, Illinois, a village located in Knox County, Illinois Altona, Indiana, a town located in DeKalb County, Indiana Altona, Hamburg, the westmost district in the city of Hamburg This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Stralsund coat of arms Stralsund (Polish: Strzałów, StrzaÅ‚owo) is a city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig   Leipzig? [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...

In 1860 he lost the commission to oversee the water system in Hamburg, and moved with his family to London. This included his three young sons - William Heerlein Lindley (born 1853), Robert Searles Lindley (born 1854) und Joseph Lindley (born 1859). In 1863 he began work on the sewerage system of Frankfurt am Main, the benefits of which became apparent as between 1868 and 1883 the death rate from typhoid fell from 80 to 10 per 100,000 inhabitants. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... St. ... William Heerlein Lindley (1853 - 1917). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... This is about the disease typhoid fever. ...

Lindley's designs were in demand across Europe, and together with his sons he built systems for cities in Germany (including Düsseldorf) and elsewhere, including St. Petersburg, Budapest and Moscow. In 1876 the Australian city of Sydney even asked him to design a sewer system for them, but he turned them down as he had just been commissioned by Warsaw. Between 1876 and 1878 he designed the Warsaw waterworks, which were constructed in the 1880s under the direction of his son, William Heerlein Lindley. To this day, there is a street in Warsaw named after him, which goes around the historical waterworks. As an interesting sidenote, the system he designed for Warsaw is still operational and the last sewer collector of his design was not replaced until 2001. Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Budapest (pronounced ) is the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre. ... Saint Basils Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin at Red Square. ... Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto StoÅ‚eczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

External link

• Portrait of Lindley (in German)