William Willcocks
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Sir William Willcocks was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire. He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never b
William Willcocks
Egyptian Public Works
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The Egyptian Department of Public Works was established in the early 19th century, and concentrates mainly on public works relating to irrigation and hydraulic engineering. These irrigation projects h
William Willcocks
…of Rev. John Edward Scott Moncrieff, in Meerut, India. Following the British invasion and occupation of Egypt, he began work with the long-established Egyptian Public Works Department in 1883. He was serving as director general of reservoirs for Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1896 to construct the Aswan…
Aswan High Dam, crown jewel of the Egyptian Public Works
French engineer Pascal Coste (1787–1879). First Chief Engineer for Lower Egypt (1819–1829)
Nile Barrage in 1906, with its distinctive architecture
The Ismailia Canal