John Bailey Denton (1814–1893) M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., was a British

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...

and

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

.John Bailey Denton
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Biography

When discussing the value of

sewage Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewerage, sewer system. Sewage consists of wastewater discharged fro ...

, Denton records that

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Biography Jean-Baptiste Boussingault – an agric ...

, a chemist, demonstrated that a harvest of of wheat and of

barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

can be obtained from the nearly of

nitrogen Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol N and atomic number 7. Nitrogen is a Nonmetal (chemistry), nonmetal and the lightest member of pnictogen, group 15 of the periodic table, often called the Pnictogen, pnictogens. ...

an adult's body-waste produces yearly. In addition, 9s (£ in ) was calculated by Dr.

Augustus Voelcker John Christopher Augustus Voelcker FRS (24 September 1822 – 5 December 1884) was a Royal Agricultural Society of England chemist. Voelcker was known for his methodical and precise analytical practices as applied to agricultural chemistry. He ...

, the consulting chemist for the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be the annual value of

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and

phosphate Phosphates are the naturally occurring form of the element phosphorus. In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthop ...

s excreted per head.Denton (1885) p. 94

Honorary

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

List of publications

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and Works by Mr Bailey-Denton, M. Inst. C.E.; F.G.S., in Sewage Disposal (1895). * (1842) What Can now be Done for British Agriculture? * (1849) Sewerage of London * (1854) Land Drainage and drainage Systems * (1855) Underdrainage of Land; its progress and results (

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Medal) * (1857) Road-Making (Prize Essay) * (1858) The effect of Underdrainage on Arterial Channels and Outfalls * (1863) The Discharge from Underdrainage (

Telford Medal The Telford Medal is a prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for a paper or series of papers. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by Thomas Telford, the ICE's first president. It can be awarded in gold ...

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.) * (1864) The Farm Homesteads of England * (1865) The importance of Shelter and Covering at Homesteads in certain Districts of Great Britain * (1865) The Marshes of South Italy * (1866) The Water Question * (1868) The Agricultural Labourer * (1869) Sanitary Works * (1870) Sewage Farming * (1871) Sewage the Fertilizer of Land, and Land the Purifier of Sewage * (1872) Underdrainage and the steps taken to develop and maintain its effects * (1873) Intermittent Downward Filtration and Irrigation * (1874) Sanitary Science applied to Towns and Rural Districts * (1874) Storage of Water * (1877) Sanitary Engineering * (1881) Sewage Disposal

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Denton 1814 births 1893 deaths British surveyors British civil engineers