William Willcocks
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 91 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 27,1852 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | India |
| Date of died | July 28,1932 |
| Died | Cairo |
| Egypt | |
| Projects | Nile Irrigation System |
| Hindyia Barrage | |
| 1st Aswan dam | |
| Assuit Barrage | |
| Significant projects | Aswan Low Dam |
| Assiut Barrage | |
| Job | Civil engineer |
| Education | Roorkee College, India |
| Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | |
| Books | Egyptian Irrigation |
| The Nile in 1904 | |
| The Garden of Eden to the Crossing of the Jordan | |
| The Restoration of the Ancient Irrigation Works on the Tigris, Or, The Re-creation of Chaldea | |
| Egyptian Irrigation, Volume 1 - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
| Egyptian Irrigation, Volume 2 - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
| The Nile Projects | |
| Ancient System of Irrigation in Bengal and Its Application to Modern Problems | |
| The Assuan Reservoir and Lake Meris: Address at a Meeting of the Khedivial Geographical Society, Cairo, January 16 1904 | |
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| ID | 442350 |
William Willcocks Life story
Sir William Willcocks KCMG was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire. He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempted previously.
