Bradfield, John Job Crew (1867-1943), was an Australian engineer. Bradfield was chief engineer during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney’s underground railway system. He also put forward the Bradfield Plan, in which he planned to divert the flow of some Queensland rivers to irrigate the dry interior on the western side of the Great Dividing Range. This plan could not be made to work well, but a similar plan succeeded in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales and Victoria.
Bradfield was born on Dec. 26, 1867, in Sandgate, Queensland, and was educated at the University of Sydney. He died on Sept. 23, 1943.
