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Kaichi Watanabe (渡邊 嘉一, Watanabe Kaichi, 22 March 1858 – 4 December 1932) was a Japanese engineer who studied and worked in Scotland, United Kingdom during the 1880s. He was one of the first Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK. He is best known for his work with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in cantilever bridge construction, notably on the Forth Bridge. Watanabe's image became well known in the 1887 photograph illustrating the cantilever principle, in which he poses with Fowler and Baker, suspended between the engineers who form a cantilever structure with their arms.

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  • Watanabe Kaichi (fr)
  • Kaichi Watanabe (en)
  • 渡邊嘉一 (ja)
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  • 渡邊 嘉一（わたなべ かいち、1858年3月22日（安政5年2月8日） - 1932年12月4日）は、日本の土木技術者、実業家。日本土木史の父と呼ばれる。旧姓、宇治橋。 (ja)
  • Kaichi Watanabe (渡邊 嘉一, Watanabe Kaichi, 22 March 1858 – 4 December 1932) was a Japanese engineer who studied and worked in Scotland, United Kingdom during the 1880s. He was one of the first Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK. He is best known for his work with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in cantilever bridge construction, notably on the Forth Bridge. Watanabe's image became well known in the 1887 photograph illustrating the cantilever principle, in which he poses with Fowler and Baker, suspended between the engineers who form a cantilever structure with their arms. (en)
  • Watanabe Kaichi (渡邊嘉一) (22 mars 1858 — 4 décembre 1932) est un ingénieur japonais qui étudia et travailla en Écosse durant les années 1880. Il fut l'un des premiers Japonais à venir étudier au Royaume-Uni. Il est principalement connu pour son travail aux côtés de John Fowler et Benjamin Baker dans la construction d'un pont à poutres en porte-à-faux, le pont du Forth. Le chef d'orchestre Takashi Asahina est le fils illégitime de Watanabe. (fr)
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  • Kaichi Watanabe (en)
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  • Kaichi Watanabe (en)
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  • Asahi, Shinano (en)
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  • Watanabe Kaichi (渡邊嘉一) (22 mars 1858 — 4 décembre 1932) est un ingénieur japonais qui étudia et travailla en Écosse durant les années 1880. Il fut l'un des premiers Japonais à venir étudier au Royaume-Uni. Il est principalement connu pour son travail aux côtés de John Fowler et Benjamin Baker dans la construction d'un pont à poutres en porte-à-faux, le pont du Forth. Watanabe étudie auprès du conseiller étranger Henry Dyer, ingénieur écossais dirigeant l'école impériale d'ingénieurs du Japon. Après son diplôme de la faculté de technologie de l'université impériale de Tokyo, il étudie à l'université de Glasgow à partir de 1885 et est diplômé d’ingénierie civile et de science, puis travaille comme chef d'équipe sur la construction du pont du Forth qui passe au-dessus du Firth of Forth. Il revient au Japon en 1888. Il travaille dans la Nippon Doboku Co., Ltd. (有限責任日本土木会社), puis pour diverses sociétés. Il est docteur en ingénierie de école impériale d'ingénieurs du Japon en 1899. Il a été président de plusieurs sociétés, dont la Compagnie de chemin de fer Sangū (参宮鉄道), la Kansai Gas Company, le chantier naval Tokyo Ishikawajima, et la Compagnie de chemin de fer électrique Keiō. Le chef d'orchestre Takashi Asahina est le fils illégitime de Watanabe. (fr)
  • Kaichi Watanabe (渡邊 嘉一, Watanabe Kaichi, 22 March 1858 – 4 December 1932) was a Japanese engineer who studied and worked in Scotland, United Kingdom during the 1880s. He was one of the first Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK. He is best known for his work with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in cantilever bridge construction, notably on the Forth Bridge. Watanabe studied under Henry Dyer, the Scottish engineer associated with technical education in Japan. After obtaining a degree from the Faculty of Technology of the University of Tokyo, he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1885 and graduated with a Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Science degree, and worked as a construction foreman on the Forth Bridge, which crossed the Firth of Forth in eastern Scotland in 1890. Watanabe's image became well known in the 1887 photograph illustrating the cantilever principle, in which he poses with Fowler and Baker, suspended between the engineers who form a cantilever structure with their arms. Conductor Takashi Asahina was the illegitimate son of Watanabe. (en)
  • 渡邊 嘉一（わたなべ かいち、1858年3月22日（安政5年2月8日） - 1932年12月4日）は、日本の土木技術者、実業家。日本土木史の父と呼ばれる。旧姓、宇治橋。 (ja)
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  • 渡邊 嘉一 (en)
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