John Bailey Denton

John Bailey Denton
Born November 26, 1814(1814-11-26)
London
Died November 19, 1893(1893-11-19) (aged 78)
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Nationality British
Fields Surveyor,
Civil engineer
Known for Railway surveying, water & sewage engineering, legislation, author

John Bailey Denton (1814–1893) M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., was a surveyor and a civil engineer.[1]

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Biography

When discussing the value of sewage, Denton records that Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, a chemist, demonstrated that a harvest of 800 pounds (360 kg) of wheat and 900 pounds (410 kg) of barley can be obtained from the nearly 16 pounds (7.3 kg) of nitrogen an adult's body-waste produces yearly.[2] In addition, 9s (£36 at present worth[3] as of 2012) was calculated by Dr. Augustus Voelcker, the consulting chemist for the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be the annual value of ammonia and phosphates excreted per head.[4]

Honorary

Honorary member of the R.A.S.S. of Denmark, Sweden, and Hanover.[5]

List of publications

This list is taken from ODNB[1] and Works by Mr Bailey-Denton, M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., in Sewage Disposal (1895).[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "John Bailey Denton", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ Denton (1885) p. 93
  3. ^ Using RPI as described in Choosing the Best Indicator to Measure Relative Worth
  4. ^ Denton (1885) p. 94
  5. ^ a b Denton, John Bailey (1885) (PDF). Sewage Disposal: Ten Years' (Now Fourtenn Years) in Works of Intermittent Downward Filtration (2 ed.). E and F N Spon. http://ia311026.us.archive.org/3/items/cu31924004401349/cu31924004401349.pdf. Retrieved 18 July 2010.