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March 2, 1892. Sir John Coode died.—A pupil of J. M. Rendel, Coode became resident engineer, and then engineer-in-chief, of the Portland breakwater, completed in 1872, and afterwards rose to be the most distinguished harbour engineer of his time. Among Ms greatest works were those at Cape Town, Fre-mantle, and Colombo. From 1889 to 1891 he served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 109, 289 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109289a0
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