William Haywood designed Holborn Viaduct, helped plan London’s sewers and transformed its roads, cemetery and public spaces, yet his name is often overlooked.

In 1882, Thomas Edison’s company used the hidden passages of Holborn Viaduct to power one of the earliest public electric lighting systems in the world.

Imagine crossing London Bridge and seeing palm trees, speedboats and desert mountains instead of the River Thames. That is what happens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Standing over the Bridgewater Channel is a bridge built for nineteenth-century London. Its granite once looked down upon crowds of commuters, horse-drawn traffic and boats passing through the heart … Read more