Joseph Bazalgette
person
5 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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Engineer who designed London's modern sewer system
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Peak in the day, 19 Sep — 3 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Strangest Stories in History You Won’t Believe Are Tru... · 2:49:36 · 19 Sep
…Once Bazalgette's system was operating and the waste was no longer pouring into the stretch of river from which the city drew its water, cholera, which had returned again and again to slaughter the population every few years, simply stopped.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Strangest Stories in History You Won’t Believe Are Tru... · 2:46:11 · 19 Sep
…Bazalgette designed and oversaw the construction of an entirely new sewer system for London.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Strangest Stories in History You Won’t Believe Are Tru... · 2:45:58 · 19 Sep
…The man entrusted with actually solving the problem was a civil engineer named Joseph Bazalgette, and what he went on to build stands as one of the great engineering achievements of the age and a quiet monument to the value of doing a job properly.…
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