Baker, Sir Benjamin (1840-1907), was an English civil engineer. He and his partner, Sir John Fowler, designed and supervised the construction of the London subway and the Firth of Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland. Baker also invented a pneumatic shield for boring the first tunnel between New Jersey and New York under the Hudson River. He worked as a consultant on the design of Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, and on building the Aswan Dam in Egypt. He was born on March 31, 1840, in Frome, England. Baker died on May 19, 1907.
