James Simpson (engineer)

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name = James Simpson
nationality = British
birth_date = 1799
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death_date = 1869
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discipline = civil engineer
institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president) Fellow of the Royal Society
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James Simpson (1799-1869) was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from January 1853 to January 1855.Citation | first = Garth | last = Watson| title = The Civils | publisher = London: Thomas Telford Ltd | page = 251
year = 1988 | isbn = 0-727-70392-7]

James Simpson was the fourth son of Thomas Simpson, engineer of the Chelsea Waterworks. James succeeded his father in both this post and that of engineer of the Lambeth Waterworks Company. It was under Simpson's instruction that the Chelsea Waterworks became the first in the country to install a slow sand filtration system to purify the water they were drawing from the River Thames [ [http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/chelsea_waterworks_a2.html Brief History of the Chelsea Waterworks] accessed on december 1 2007] . This filter consisted of successive beds of loose brick, gravel and sand to remove solids from the water. [Hendricks, David (2005). Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical. CRC Press, p665. ISBN 0824706951. ]

He also designed waterworks at Windsor Castle and Bristol as well as The Wooden Pier at Southend on Sea. [ [http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/photogal/the-cas3.html The Great Sheffield Flood] ]

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years=December 1853 – December 1855 s-aft|after=Robert Stephenson end

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