William Heerlein Lindley

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William Heerlein Lindley
Lindley underground sewer system in Prague

Sir William Heerlein Lindley (born January 30, 1853 in Hamburg , † December 30, 1917 in London ) was an English engineer who, at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century, together with his father William Lindley , but also independently, water supply - and sewer systems in major European cities. From 1867 to 1896 he worked in Frankfurt am Main . In Poland he oversaw the construction of the Warsaw sewer network ; his 1909 plan for a sewer network for Łódź was not implemented until the 1920s. Lindley created the water and wastewater treatment systems in 36 European cities, including Bad Homburg , Hanau , Mannheim , Prague and Baku .

In addition, Lindley and Oskar von Miller were involved in the decision for one of the first electric power plants in Frankfurt am Main in 1894. In Mannheim he worked on the construction of the first power station at the industrial port. In Germany, on the brink of the so-called electricity war between the two systems of direct current and alternating current, he was one of the early decision makers in favor of the now common alternating current technology for the electrical energy supply.

The Grand Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt awarded Lindley an honorary doctorate in engineering from the Technical University, and the city of Baku awarded him honorary citizenship. The British crown made Lindley a Knight Bachelor in 1911 .

literature

  • Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner: Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd Edition. VDE Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 .
  • Jaroslav Jásek: William Heerlein Lindley a pražská kanalizace ( William Heerlein Lindley and the Prague Sewers ), Scriptorium, Prague, 2006, ISBN 80-86197-65-4 . Monograph in the Czech language.
  • Franz Lerner, William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1917). Outline of his life by Franz Lerner , in: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art , Issue 49, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 123-133.
  • Franz Lerner:  Lindley, Sir Walter, Harlein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 606 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ryszard Żelichowski: Lindleyowie. Dzieje inżynierskiego rodu (The Lindleys. Works of a Family of Engineers), Warsaw 2002, ISBN 83-88794-91-4
  • Ryszard Żelichowski: Lindley, Sir William Heerlein (1853–1917) . In: The Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, Vol. 33, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 41024 *

Web links

Commons : William Heerlein Lindley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mannheim.de/de/nachrichten/er-baute-mannheims-abwassersystem
  2. ↑ https://www.mannheim.de/de/nachrichten/er-baute-mannheims-abwassersystem
  3. ↑ https://www.mannheim.de/de/nachrichten/er-baute-mannheims-abwassersystem
  4. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Lindley, William Heerlein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindley, Sir William Heerlein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1917
Place of death London