Sir William Cubitt - Reference

Civil engineer, born in Dilham, Norfolk, E England, UK. Inventor of the patent windmill sails (1807) and the prison treadwheel (1818), he was a millwright until 1812, then engineer to Ransome and Son, Ipswich, until 1821. He moved to London in 1826. His constructions include the Bute Docks at Cardiff, the Severn Navigation, and the main lines of the South Eastern Railway and the Great Northern Railway. He was knighted for his work relating to the Crystal Palace.

For the contractor, see [[William Cubitt]].

Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright.

Structures that still exist include:

Many windmills in East Anglia or Lincolnshire Iron bridges at Brent Eleigh and Clare (Suffolk) and 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

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Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.