William Heerlein Lindley

Sir William Heerlein Lindley ( born January 30, 1853 in Hamburg, † December 30, 1917 in London ) was an English engineer who at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century, along with his father William Lindley, but also independently, water supply - sewage systems in major European cities created. From 1867 to 1896 he worked in Frankfurt am Main. In Poland, he oversaw the establishment of the Warsaw sewer system; his plan for a sewerage system for Łódź from 1909 was not realized until the 1920s. Lindley also works include the entire underground wastewater treatment system of Prague. On the water supply system for Baku, he worked from 1899 until his death.

Furthermore, Lindley has worked together with Oskar von Miller in 1894 in the decision for one of the first electric power stations in Frankfurt am Main. He has thus made ​​in Germany on the edge of the so-called current war between the two systems direct or alternating current at an early stage, the decision for the now common alternating current technology for electrical power supply.