Jeme Tien Yow (Chinese: 詹天佑; pinyin: Zhān Tiānyòu; 26 April 1861 – 24 April 1919) was a distinguished Chinese railroad engineer. Educated in the United States of America, he was the chief engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou), the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance.
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