\"Father of the Danube\" Charles Augustus Hartley Hand Written Letter Dated 1892 For Sale

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\"Father of the Danube\" Charles Augustus Hartley Hand Written Letter Dated 1892 :
$699.99

Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Father of the Danube" Charles Augustus Hartley Hand Written Letter Dated 1892. This is one of the only Hartley documents to exist outside of a museum and is a piece of engineering history. 

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Sir

Charles Augustus Hartley KCMG FRSE MICE

(3 February 1825 – 20 February 1915) was an eminent British civil engineer in the Victorian era. Due to his extensive work mapping the longest

river in western Europe, he became known as 'The Father of the Danube.' Hartley

was born in 1825 at Heworth, Gateshead, County Durham. He was educated at Bishop Auckland then Leeds. Like

most engineers of his generation he was engaged in railway work in the early part of his career, being

employed by the Scottish Central Railway. Subsequently, he devoted himself

to hydraulic engineering and

the improvement of estuaries and harbors for the purposes of navigation. From 1848 to 1855

he was employed overseeing the construction of Sutton harbour. He was employed

in connection with some of the largest and most important waterways of the

world, including the early work (1861) on the Suez Canal and Odessa Harbour in 1867. After serving in the Crimean war (1853 - Feb 1856) as a captain of engineers

in the Anglo-Turkish contingent, he was appointed engineer-in-chief for the

works carried out by the European

Commission of the Danube for improving the navigation at the mouths of that

river, and that position he retained till 1872, when he became consulting

engineer to the Commission. In 1875, he was one of the committee appointed by

the authority of the United States Congress to

report on the works necessary to form and maintain a deep channel through the

south pass of the Mississippi delta; and in

1884 the British government nominated him a member of the international

technical commission for widening the Suez Canal. In addition, he was consulted by the British and

other governments in connection with many other river and harbour works,

including the improvement of the navigation of the Scheldt, Hooghly, Don, and Dnieper, and of the ports of Odessa, Trieste, Kustendjie (at In 1869 he was created a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,

his proposer being David Stevenson. He

was knighted in 1862 and made K.C.M.G. in 1884. He was an active member of the Institution of Civil

Engineers and for his written papers was awarded their Telford, Watt, and Stephenson medals. He also received

the Albert Medal from

the Society of Arts in

1913 in recognition of his public service. 

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