Daniel Miller (engineer)

Daniel Miller (1825–1888) was a 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and inventor remembered as a harbour and bridge-builder.

He was born on 9 January 1825 the son of Isabella Paul and Stephen Miller, a coppersmith and brassfounder, living and working at 48 Saracens Lane in Glasgow.

[1] The premises was taken over by Walter Macfarlane in 1850 and became world famous as the Saracen Foundry.

Daniel was apprenticed to Gordon & Hill and here he met Robert Bruce Bell (1823-1883) with whom he later went into partnership.

They engineered water supply schemes for Grangemouth and for Rio Grande and Pelotas in Brazil.