Editing Benjamin Baker (engineer) (section)

==Honours and Old Aswan Dam==
[[File:Sir Benjamin Baker Blue Plaque Cheltenham.jpg|thumb|right|[[Blue plaque]] in [[Cheltenham]] at the site of Baker's former home]]
On the completion of this undertaking in 1890 he was appointed Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG),<ref name=KCMG>{{London Gazette|issue=26029|page=1200 |date=4 March 1890}}</ref> and in the same year the [[Royal Society]] recognised his scientific attainments by electing him one of its fellows. In 1892 the [[French Academy of Sciences]] recognised the work of Fowler and Baker by the joint award of the [[Poncelet Prize]]; Baker received 2000 francs because the prize money was doubled.<ref>{{cite book|title=Engineering: A Weekly Illustrated|chapter=INSTITUT DE FRANCE|year=1892|volume=LIV – From July to December, 1892|page=782|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bppDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA782}}</ref> Ten years later at the formal opening of the first [[Aswan Low Dam|Aswan Dam]], for which he was consulting engineer, he was appointed Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] (KCB).<ref name=KCB>{{London Gazette|issue=27510|page=8968 |date=30 December 1902}}</ref> He served as president of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] between May 1895 and June 1896.<ref name="civils">{{Citation|first=Garth|last=Watson|title=The Civils|publisher=London: Thomas Telford Ltd|page=252|year=1988|isbn=0-7277-0392-7}}</ref> He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1899<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=5 May 2011}}</ref> and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1902.