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The Great Stink was an event in Central London during July and August 1858 in which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames. The problem had been mounting for some years, with an ageing and inadequate sewer system that emptied directly into the Thames.
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (/ ˈ b æ z əl dʒ ɛ t /; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer.As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean ...
2 July – Great Stink: the stench of sewage from the River Thames affects work in the House of Commons. [5] 17 July – salvage of the Lutine bell, which is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London. 26 July – Lionel de Rothschild takes his seat as the first Jewish Member of Parliament. [8]
Big Stink may refer to: Big Stink (aircraft) , a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 The Great Stink , or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London.
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Joseph Bazalgette, Great Stink, Bazalgette Mausoleum, List of presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering Creator Lock & Whitfield, restored by Adam Cuerden. Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 14:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
Most of it was designed by Joseph Bazalgette, as a result of an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the "Great Stink" of 1858. Prior to the work, drains in central London were built primarily to cope with rain water, but the growing use of flush toilets frequently meant that they became overloaded, causing sewage and industrial effluent to flow ...
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