The New International Encyclopædia/Barlow, William Henry

BARLOW, William Henry (1812-1901). An English engineer. He was born and educated at Woolwich. In 1832 he went to Constantinople, where he planned the factory and machinery for the improvement of the Sultan's ordnance, and examined the lighthouses at the entrance to the Bosporus. For this service he received from the Sultan the decoration of the 'Nichan.' He was the engineer of the new bridge over the Tay (1880-87), and cooperated with Sir J. Fowler and J. Harrison in designing the Firth of Forth Bridge. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1880. Among his publications may be mentioned: Illumination of Lighthouses (1837); Diurnal Electric Tides and Storms (1848): Resistance of Flexure in Beams (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1855); The Logograph (1874).