Northridge Middle School, and William Mulholland Middle School.

The City of Los Angeles and William Mulholland were building the Owens River aqueduct, starting in 1905 and to be finished in 1913.

* William Mulholland Middle School ( Lake Balboa )

As the population of Palmdale began to increase after relocation, water became scarce, until November 5, 1913 when the California – Los Angeles Aqueduct system was completed finally by William Mulholland, bringing water from the Owens Valley into Los Angeles County.

William Mulholland, superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ( LADWP ) planned the Los Angeles Aqueduct, completed in 1913, which diverted water from the Owens River.

# William D. Mulholland, CEO from 1979 to 1989

The aqueduct construction was overseen by William Mulholland and was finished in 1913.

The water wars began when Frederick Eaton was elected mayor of Los Angeles in 1898, and appointed his friend, William Mulholland, the superintendent of the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ( LADWP ).

This deadline was missed, but on December 6, 2006, a ceremony was held ( at the same site where William Mulholland had ceremonially opened the aqueduct and closed the flow through the Owens River ) to re-start the flow down the < span style =" white-space: nowrap "></ span > river.

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The department was under the supervision of its chief engineer, William Mulholland.

Fred Eaton, superintendent of the Water Company, hired William Mulholland in 1878 as a zanjero ( ditch tender ).

William Mulholland had a penchant for thriftiness, an enormous capacity for innovation, and the ability to complete difficult projects on-time and on-budget.

" Privilege and Responsibility: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster.

** This collection of articles about the dam includes contributions from Catherine Mulholland, William Mulholland's granddaughter, and Dr. J. David Rogers.

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It was not guaranteed, however, that William Mulholland, Eaton ’ s protégé and the man who took over the job of superintending engineer when Eaton was elected city engineer, would have a position working with the city-owned water system.

The LADWP and William Mulholland played a key role in the development of Hoover Dam and bringing its energy to Los Angeles.

The book examined the development of water policy in the American West, particularly concentrating on the role of William Mulholland and the LADWP.

The Owens Valley aqueduct was designed by the city's water deparment, at the time named the Bureau of Water Works and Supply, under the supervision of the department's chief engineer and Superintendent William Mulholland.

The William Mulholland Memorial Fountain, built in 1940 and located at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Blvd.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge ( d. 1852 )

In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as " after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life.

* Frederick William Cumberland ( 1821 – 1881 ), engineer and politician

The Mouse_ ( computing )# Early_mice | first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by William English ( computer engineer ) | Bill English from Engelbart's sketches.

The first electrical engineer was probably William Gilbert who designed the versorium: a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, chief engineer with the Edison Laboratories, is credited with the invention of a practicable form of a celluloid strip containing a sequence of images, the basis of a method of photographing and projecting moving images.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

* 1829 – William Stanley, inventor and engineer ( d. 1909 )

Joseph Boussinesq ( a mathematician and physicist ) developed theories of stress distribution in elastic solids that proved useful for estimating stresses at depth in the ground ; William Rankine, an engineer and physicist, developed an alternative to Coulomb's earth pressure theory.

* 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

* 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist ( d. 1872 )

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company

Edward William Barton-Wright, a railway engineer who had studied jujitsu while working in Japan between 1894 – 97, was the first man known to have taught Asian martial arts in Europe.

* 1883 – William Siemens, German engineer ( b. 1823 )

* 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

Rankine is a thermodynamic ( absolute ) temperature scale named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.

* 1821 – William Jervois, English engineer and caption, 10th Governor of South Australia ( d. 1897 )

William Joseph Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, began his duties as a laboratory assistant to Edison in December

* William Fairbairn, a Scottish engineer associated with water wheels and the Britannia tubular bridge but above all with a scientific approach to engineering.