Donald Bailey
Sir
Donald Bailey
(
15 September
1901
—
5 May
1985
) was a
British
civil engineer
who invented the
Bailey bridge
. Bailey studied for a period at
Sheffield University
. Bailey was a civil servant in the
War Office
when he designed his bridge. Another engineer,
A.M. Hamilton
succesfully sued Bailey for breaching a
patent
on Hamilton's
Hamilton-Callender bridge
, though the Bailey bridge was generally regarded as being superior. Bailey was knighted in
1946
for his bridge design. He died in
Bournemouth
in
1985
. Bailey, Donald Bailey, Donald Bailey, DonaldBailey, Donald
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