Deaths on March 15

Joseph Bazalgette

Died on March 15, 1891

Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He was also the designer of Hammersmith Bridge.

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10 Mar

Strowger switch
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
15 May

Rerum novarum
Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
20 May

Kinetoscope
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

Deaths on March 15

Joseph Bazalgette

Died on March 15, 1891

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