{{Short description|British engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} '''Charles Cochrane''' (1835 [[Dudley, Worcestershire]] – 1898) was a British engineer. He was a leading authority on [[blast furnaces]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heritage.imeche.org/Biographies/CharlesCochrane|title=Engineering Heritage Awards - IMechE}}</ref> He secured a patent for dehumidifying air.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFPmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71 | title=Chemical engineering| volume= 11| publisher= McGraw-Hill Pub. Co.| year= 1913}}</ref>

==Life== In 1850, he studied at [[King's College London]]. He worked with [[Samuel Holden Blackwell]], at Russell's Hall Iron Works, and other blast-furnaces, mills and forges.

His father, [[Alexander Brodie Cochrane]], was the owner of [[Woodside Iron Works]]. In 1855, he went to the Ormesby Iron Works. In 1856, he became a partner with his father.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Woodside_Ironworks_and_Foundry|title = Woodside Ironworks and Foundry - Graces Guide}}</ref>

The Woodside Iron Works supplied many important structures, including the [[Holborn Viaduct]], [[Westminster Bridge]], [[Cannon Street Railway Bridge]], [[Charing Cross railway station]], and the [[Runcorn Railway Bridge]]. They helped relocate the [[Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges|Hungerford Suspension Bridge]] from the Thames to the [[Clifton Suspension Bridge]] at Bristol.

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