Invention Timeline - George E. Waring, American Sanitary Engineer; Executed the New Sewerage Works of Memphis, Tennessee in 1880
b. July 4, 1833 and d. October 29, 1898
American sanitary engineer. He was one of the engineers of the Central Park, New York, 1857-’61. In 1880, he executed the new sewerage works of Memphis, Tennessee. In 1895, he was appointed street commissioner of New York, where he established an efficient system of street cleaning. In 1898 he went to Havana to eradicate the causes of yellow fever and he himself became a victim of the disease. Among his books are “Elements of Agriculture” (1854), “Sanitary Drainage” (1875) and “Village Improvements and Farm Villages” (1877).
Call your light legions, tread the swampy heath,
Pierce with sharp spades the tremulous peat beneath;
With colters bright the rusty sward bisect,
And in new veins the gushing rills direct:-
So flowers shall rise in purple light array’d,
And blossom’d orchards stretch their silver shade;
Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold,
And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
—Botanic Garden: Dr. Darwin
1812, October 18—Julius Walker Adams was born. He was a hydraulic, sanitary and railroad engineer. He established the Brooklyn system of sewers, 1856, and in 1860 was engineer of the New Haven (Conn.) water-works. He was the projector of the East River Suspension Bridge.
1870-’76—Garbage disposal plants were first erected and put in operation in Great Britain. 1887, first plant in the U. S. built at Des Moines, Iowa.
