Mary Seacole
1805–1881
Refused as a nurse, she paid her own way to the Crimea and went anyway
St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
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纪念
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer of bridges, tunnels, railways and ships
- 出生
- 逝世
- 享年
- 53 岁
- 安葬之处
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, United Kingdom
Brunel built the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol so level that it was nicknamed Brunel's billiard table, threw a suspension bridge across the Avon gorge, and built the largest ship in the world three times over.
He worked himself to death at fifty-three, collapsing days before his last ship sailed. Not everything succeeded — an experimental atmospheric railway failed expensively — but the tunnels and viaducts he cut are still carrying trains a hundred and eighty years later.
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Rosalind Franklin
1920–1958
Chemist whose photograph showed the shape of DNA
Willesden Jewish Cemetery, London
Joseph Bazalgette
1819–1891
Built London's sewers twice the size the numbers required, and ended cholera
St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, London